Qualitative Methods

Qualitative methods are used to understand people’s beliefs, experiences, attitudes, behavior, and lived experiences. Qualitative data collection can include interviews, focus groups, document reviews, observations, and ethnography.

• Dr. Stacey Griner
• Dr. Melissa Lewis
• Dr. Dana Litt
• Dr. Matthew Rossheim
• Dr. Erika Thompson

• Griner, S.B., Johnson, K.C., Neelamegam, M., Webb, N.J., Kinard, A., & Kline, N. (2023). Direct-to-consumer STI screening methods: Preferred communication sources and channels among young adult women. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37195283/
• Griner, S.B., Reeves, J.M., Webb, N.J., Johnson, K.C., Kline, N., & Thompson, E.L. (2022). Consumer-based STI screening among young adult women: The negative influence of the social system. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001655
• Johnson, K.C., Akpan, I., Kinard, A., Reeves, J., & Griner S.B. (2023). Self-sampling methods for sexually transmitted infection screening among college women: A qualitative study to identify opinion leaders. HPHR, 52 https://hphr.org/52-article-johnson/
• Greene, K.M., Murphy, S.T., & Rossheim, M.E. (2018). Context and Culture: Reasons Young Adults Drink and Drive in Rural America. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 121, 194-201. doi: 10.1016/j.aap.2018.09.008  PMCID: PMC6223126
• Griner, S.B., Reeves, J.M., Webb, N.J., Johnson, K.C., Kline, N., & Thompson, E.L. (2022). Consumer-based STI screening among young adult women: The negative influence of the social system. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (In Press).
• Griner, S.B., Vamos, C.A., Puccio, J.A., Perrin, K., Beckstead, J.W., & Daley, E.M. (2019). “I’ll just pick it up…”: Women’s acceptability of self-sampling methods for STI screening. Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 46(12), 762-767. doi.org/10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001077
• Griner, S.B., Thompson, E.L., Vamos, C.A., Chaturvedi, A., Vazquez-Otero, C., Merrell, L.M., Kline, N.S., & Daley, E.M. (2019). Dental opinion leaders’ perspectives on barriers and facilitators to HPV-related prevention. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 15(7-8), 1856-1862. doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1565261
• Kline, N. (2022). Health and immigration systems as an ethnographic field: Methodological lessons from examining immigration enforcement and health in the US. Social Science & Medicine, 300, 114498
• Kline, N. (2019). When deservingness policies converge: US immigration enforcement, health reform and patient dumping. Anthropology & Medicine, 26(3), 280-295.
• Kline, N. (2017). Pathogenic policy: Immigrant policing, fear, and parallel medical systems in the US South. Medical anthropology, 36(4), 396-410.
• Lewis, M. A., Atkins, D. C., Blayney, J. A., Dent, D. V., Kaysen, D. L. (2013). What is hooking up? Examining definitions of hooking up in relation to hooking up behavior and normative perceptions. The Journal of Sex Research, 50, 757-766. 10.1080/00224499.2012.706333 PMCID: PMC3546226
• Lewis, M. A., Cadigan, J. M., Cronce, J. M., Kilmer, J. R., Suffoletto, B., Walter, T., & Lee, C. M. (2018). Developing text message interventions to reduce community college student alcohol use. American Journal of Health Behavior, 42, 70-79. doi.org/10.5993/AJHB.42.4.7
• Litt, D. M., Lewis, M. A., Spiro, E., Aulck, L., **Waldron, K. A., **Swanson, A., & **Head-Corliss, M. K. (2018).  #drunktwitter:  An examination of the relationship between self-reported drinking behavior and publicly available Twitter activity.  Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 193, 75-82.
• Rossheim, M.E., Greene, K.M., & Stephenson, C.J. (2018). Activities and Situations When Young Adults Drive Drunk in Rural Montana. American Journal of Health Behavior, 42(3), 27-36. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.42.3.3  PMCID: PMC5993420
• Thompson, E.L., Daley, E.M., Vamos, C.A., Horowitz, A.M., Catalanotto, F.A., DeBate, R.D., Merrell, L.M., Griner, S., Vázquez-Otero, C., & Kline, N.S. (2017). Health literacy approaches to improving communication between dental hygienists and patients for HPV-related oral cancer prevention.  Journal of Dental Hygiene, 91(4): 37-45. PMID: 29118082.
• Thompson, E.L., Vamos, C.A., Jones, J., Liggett, L.G., Griner, S.B., Logan, R., & Daley, E.M. (2018). Perceptions of Zika virus prevention among college students in Florida. Journal of Community Health, 43(4):673-679. PMID: 29380211.
• Thompson, E.L., Galvin, A.M., Rohr, D., Klocek, C., Lowe, H., & Spence, E.E. (2020). Navigating the system for families experiencing homelessness. Journal of Children and Poverty, 26(2):253-267. doi: 10.1080/10796126.2020.1835131.