Research vs. Policy/practice

For this question, as you can see, you might get hung up on whether to look primarily to research literature, or whether to look to policy or practice literature. If you are primary interested in whether something is true or grounded in a methodological reading of data, then you want research. If you are interested in whether something is right, ethical, or applicable in this context, then you want policy or practice.

participatory action research + RQ

ethnography + RQ

from class: mixed methods + RQ

Example RQ for 1/30: How do you get a research question from, say, mixed methods (a type of evidence/method), and a public health-related topic?

What HIV prevention programs have proved ineffective because of cultural insensitivity and miscommunication? And what HIV interventions have been put forth in their place?

"mixed methods" "public health"<--first search in KC

Generalizing about Public Health Interventions: A Mixed-Methods Approach to External Validity

by Leviton, Laura C

Annual Review of Public Health, 04/2017, Volume 38, Issue 1

Generalizing about Public Health Interventions: A Mixed-Methods Approach to External Validity

by Leviton, Laura C

Annual Review of Public Health, 04/2017, Volume 38, Issue 1

Mixed methods research in public health: issues and illustration

by Guevel, MR; Pommier, J

SANTE PUBLIQUE, 01/2012, Volume 24, Issue 1

For many years, researchers in a range of fields have combined quantitative and qualitative methods. However, the combined use of quantitative and qualitative methods has only recently been conceptualized and defined as mixed methods research. Some authors have described the emerging field as a third methodological tradition (in addition to the qualitative and quantitative traditions). Mixed methods research combines different perspectives and facilitates the study of complex interventions or programs, particularly in public health, an area where interdisciplinarity is critical. However, the existing literature is primarily in English.

Generalizing about Public Health Interventions: A Mixed-Methods Approach to External Validity, by Laura C. Leviton<--this is where you got the HIV/ Native American idea

SubjectTerms:"Mixed methods"; "public health"

SubjectTerms:"Mixed methods"; "public health" AND "HIV prevention" AND drugs

Sexual Scripts and Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Black Heterosexual Men: Development of the Sexual Scripts Scale

Sexual scripts are widely shared gender and culture-specific guides for sexual behavior with important implications for HIV prevention

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