title: Conducting go-along interviews to understand context and promote health.
abstract: Go-along interviewing is an innovative approach to obtaining contextualized perspectives by conducting mobile interviews in which the participant acts as a navigational guide of the real or virtual space within which he or she lives. In this study, we used go-along interviews to obtain college students' contextualized perceptions of sexual health resources. Seventy-eight undergraduate students showed and described the resources on and near five campuses in a Midwestern state. In this article, we focus on the methodology of go-along interviews. The go-along, a relatively new methodology in health research, is a format in which participants take an active role in shaping the interview, and it facilitates identification of resources that might be overlooked using traditional interview formats. The go-along methodology is promising for researchers wanting to ground health-promotion efforts in the context of environmental or community-based strengths and needs.
authors: University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. Garcia@umn.edu
authors: Carolyn M
authors: CM
authors: Garcia
authors: Marla E
authors: ME
authors: Eisenberg
authors: Ellen A
authors: EA
authors: Frerich
authors: Kate E
authors: KE
authors: Lechner
authors: Katherine
authors: K
authors: Lust
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015146:Midwestern United States; D036301:Qualitative Research; D060728:Reproductive Health; D012572:School Health Services; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult