Hoppers and oldheads: qualitative evaluation of a volunteer AIDS outreach intervention. AIDS Behav 2003 Sep;7(3):303-15
Date
10/31/2003Pubmed ID
14586192DOI
10.1023/a:1025499904469Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0141791003 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 16 CitationsAbstract
Qualitative research can play an important role in explaining outcomes of behavioral interventions and constitutes a largely unrealized potential of ethnographic methods in AIDS research. The Self Help in Eliminating Life Threatening Diseases (SHIELD) intervention trained African American injection drug users to conduct outreach among their drug-using peers and sexual partners. Though the intervention was not targeting adolescents, some participants chose to conduct outreach with youth fortuitously found on the street. Still others spoke to groups of youth in their homes. This paper seeks to understand the dynamics of outreach encounters between older, drug-using outreach workers and adolescents. Contextual features that were important in determining the quality of outreach encounters with youth included the setting (on the street or in the home), characteristics of the outreach worker such as gender, content of the outreach message, and style of interpersonal communication.
Author List
Dickson-Gómez J, Knowlton A, Latkin CAuthor
Julia Dickson-Gomez PhD Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAdolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Adult
Community-Institutional Relations
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Middle Aged
Peer Group
Self Efficacy
Self-Help Groups
Sexual Behavior
Substance Abuse, Intravenous
Volunteers
