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An Introduction to Concept Mapping as a Participatory Public Health Research MethodDepartment of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Centre for Inner City Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada
Two Gems Consulting Services in Baltimore, Maryland
Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland
Department of Prevention and Community Health at the George Washington University School of Public Health
Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York In this article, the authors introduce concept mapping as a useful participatory research method for public health researchers interested in generating hypotheses and developing theory. The authors first provide an overview of concept mapping, which combines qualitative approaches with quantitative analytical tools to produce visual displays of the relationship between ideas. Then, they present an illustrative research application of the method to the exploration of women’s perceptions of the relationship between residential neighborhood factors and intimate partner violence experiences. They give attention to the data collection and analysis procedures and to demonstrating the intricacies of using concept mapping for public health research purposes. Finally, the article concludes with a discussion of the unique contributions and challenges associated with concept mapping.
Key Words: methodology • hypothesis generation • theory development
Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 15, No. 10,
1392-1410 (2005) This article has been cited by other articles:
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