Overview

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has presented considerable challenges to social researchers to provide detailed and accurate information about ""sensitive"" behaviour amongst ""hidden"" populations, to develop theories to explain and predict how and why behaviour changes; and to carry out assessments of knowledge, attitudes, practices and the effectiveness of health education interventions in shaping these. This volume draws together examples of innovative research which has been conducted in the field of HIV/AIDS and describes the relevance of these methods for research in health behaviour more generally. The chapters are drawn from the work of 12 research groups who, in response to the challenge of HIV/AIDS research, have developed the tools of social research to new degrees of sophistication or put them to use in novel and imaginative ways. While the emphasis in this book is on the methods the researchers have developed, it is in the substantive findings of their studies, and their contribution to our understanding of the epidemic, that the methods have proved their worth. The AIDS epidemic has ""changed the rule"" for social research on health and illness. The urgency surrounding the epidemic has given rise to an openness to different disciplines and new approaches within the research community. For example, questions of the reliability and validity of accounts of ""private"" behaviour have been given new consideration, as have the theoretical underpinnings of research which looks at vulnerable or ""disadvantaged"" groups within society. The developments described in this volume represent the way social science has been taken forward by researchers who have confronted the challenges posed by research on the social dimensions of HIV/AIDS.

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Author:   Mary Boulton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780748401987

ISBN 10:   0748401989
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   05 July 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Methodological Imagination, Mary Boulton; Part 1 Research Design, Theoretical Frameworks and the Research Question; Chapter 2 Using Longitudinal Cohort-Sequential Designs to Study Changes in Sexual Behaviour, Glynis M. Breakwell, Chris R. Fife-Schaw; Chapter 3 Monitoring Behavioural Change in the Population: A Continuous Data Collection Approach, David McQueen, Stefano Carnpostrini; Chapter 4 Acts, Sessions and Individuals: A Model for Analysing Sexual Behaviour, Peter Davies; Chapter 5 Analysing Naturally-Occurring Data on AIDS Counselling: Some Methodological and Practical Issues, David Silverman; Part 2 Samples and Populations; Chapter 6 Some Methodological and Practical Implications of Employing Drug Users as Indigenous Fieldworkers, Robert Power; Chapter 7 How Many Prostitutes? Epidemiology out of Ethnography, Neil McKeganey, Marina Barnard, Michael Bloor; Part 3 Methods of Data Collection; Chapter 8 Diaries and Sexual Behaviour: The Use of Sexual Diaries as Method and Substance in Researching Gay Men’s Response to HIV/AIDS, Anthony P.M. Coxon; Chapter 9 Social Science Methods used in a Study of Prostitutes in the Gambia, Helen Pickering; Chapter 10 Focus Groups: Method or Madness?, Jenny Kitzinger; Part 4 Evaluating Health Education Interventions; Chapter 11 Theory, Utility and Stakeholders: Methodological Issues in Evaluating a Community Project on HIV/AIDS, Ian S. Peers, Margaret Johnston; Chapter 12 Assessing AIDS Preventive Strategies in Europe: Lessons for Evaluative Research, Kaye Wellings; Part 5 A Feminist Approach to Social Research HIV/AIDS; Chapter 13 Methodological Issues in Researching Young Women’s Sexuality, Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Scott, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson; Part 6 Looking Forward; Chapter 14 Towards the Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS Research, Mildred Blaxter;

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