Locating research informants in a multi-ethnic community: Ethnic identities, social networks and recruitment methods
Locating research informants in a multi-ethnic community: Ethnic identities, social networks and recruitment methods
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DOI：
10.1080/13557850303558
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发表时间：
2003-02-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Campbell, CM
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McLean, CA;Campbell, CM
目标。招募线人可以“成就或破坏”社会研究项目，但这一点很少受到研究的关注。根据我们最近对南英格兰一个多种族社区的健康和社会资本进行的定性研究，本文详细分析了在招募自称为非洲-加勒比人、巴基斯坦-克什米尔人和白种英国人的研究线人时遇到的复杂性。招募方法有三种：(1)在当地媒体上刊登广告和文章；(2)通过当地志愿组织进行机构联系；(3)人际联系、推荐和滚雪球式招聘。我们比较和对比了在上述三个种族群体中进行研究的种族匹配的采访者的经验。这些经历是通过冗长的面试官“汇报问卷”的方式记录下来的，这些问卷的重点是帮助或阻碍他们找到研究参与者的因素。这些问卷构成了一个讨论会的基础，在这个讨论会中，面试官和研究人员试图确定影响招聘过程的因素。我们的研究结果表明，当地的广告和媒体联系在招募我们南英格兰小镇的白人英语社区成员方面效果最好。人际交往对招募巴基斯坦-克什米尔线人至关重要。机构接触是接触非裔加勒比人的最有用的方式。我们的结论是，当地的民族身份和社会网络对不同社区的招聘尝试产生了质的不同反应。这种差异要求在开始征聘前在目标社区采用一系列征聘方法和详细的形成性研究。
Objectives. Recruitment of informants can 'make or break' social research projects, yet this has received little research attention. Drawing on our recent qualitative research into health and social capital in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in South England, this paper presents a detailed analysis of the complexities encountered in recruiting research informants who described themselves as African-Caribbean, Pakistani-Kashmiri and white English.Metbods. Three methods of recruitment were used: (1) advertisements and articles in local media, (2) institutional contacts through local voluntary organisations and (3) interpersonal contacts, referrals and snowballing. We compare and contrast the experiences of ethnically matched interviewers who conducted research amongst the three aforementioned ethnic groups. These experiences were recorded by means of lengthy interviewer 'debriefing questionnaires' that focused on factors that had served to help or hinder them in finding research participants. These questionnaires formed the basis of a discussion workshop in which the interviewers and researchers sought to identify the factors impacting on the recruitment process.Results. Our findings suggest that local advertisements and media contact worked best for recruiting members of the white English community in our South English town. Interpersonal contacts were crucial in recruiting Pakistani-Kashmiri informants. Institutional contacts were the most useful way of accessing African-Caribbean individuals.Conclusion. We conclude that local ethnic identities and social networks produce qualitatively different responses to recruitment attempts in different communities. Such differences necessitate the employment of a range 2 of recruitment methodologies and detailed formative research in a target community before commencing recruitment.