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Overview

Jean J. Schensul is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Professions, with a significant focus on general health professions and periodontics. Epidemiology, infectious diseases, and sociology and political science also form notable subfields of their scholarly work.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Dental Health and Care Utilization
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
  • Oral Microbiology and Periodontitis Research
  • Health and Wellbeing Research
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Some of the frequent publication venues for Jean J. Schensul include:

  • Community Science
  • AIDS and Behavior
  • BMC Oral Health
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • npj Clean Water

Several coauthors have collaborated regularly with Jean J. Schensul, notably:

  • Toan Ha
  • Stephen L. Schensul
  • Susan Reisine
  • Apoorva Salvi
  • Jianghong Li

Their recent scholarly papers illustrate a range of health concerns and interventions across populations and geographic settings. These publications include:

  • Black-White Disparities in Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Index and Their Associations with Self-rated Health and Functional Limitations in Older Adults, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A
  • Water sources and kidney function: investigating chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in a prospective study, 2021, npj Clean Water
  • A multilevel intervention to reduce stigma among alcohol consuming men living with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy: findings from a randomized control trial in India, 2020, AIDS
  • Multilevel and Multifactorial Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Consumption and Improve ART Adherence and Related Factors Among HIV Positive Men in Mumbai, India, 2021, AIDS and Behavior
  • Sexual Risk Behaviors, HIV Prevalence and Access to Reproductive Health Services Among Young Women Migrant Workers in the Industrial Zones in Vietnam, 2021, Frontiers in Reproductive Health

Best Publications

  • Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews, and Questionnaires

    Jean J. Schensul;Stephen L. Schensul;Margaret Diane LeCompte

  • Advancing the science of community-level interventions.

    Edison J. Trickett;Sarah Beehler;Charles Deutsch;Lawrence W. Green

  • Designing & conducting ethnographic research

    Margaret Diane LeCompte;Jean J. Schensul

  • Analyzing & interpreting ethnographic data

    Margaret Diane LeCompte;Jean J. Schensul

  • Youth Action Research for Prevention: a multi-level intervention designed to increase efficacy and empowerment among urban youth.

    Marlene Berg;Emil Coman;Jean J. Schensul

  • The Participatory Intervention Model: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Promoting Intervention Acceptability

    Bonnie K. Nastasi;Kristen Varjas;Stephen L. Schensul;K. Tudor Silva

  • Community, Culture and Sustainability in Multilevel Dynamic Systems Intervention Science

    Jean J. Schensul

  • Enhanced ethnographic methods : audiovisual techniques, focused group interviews, and elicitation techniques

    Jean J. Schensul;Margaret Diane LeCompte;Bonnie K. Nastasi;Stephen P. Borgatti

  • Social Networks of Drug Users in High-Risk Sites: Finding the Connections

    Margaret R. Weeks;Scott Clair;Stephen P. Borgatti;Kim Radda

  • Designing & conducting ethnographic research : an introduction

    Margaret Diane LeCompte;Jean J. Schensul

  • AIDS prevention for African-American and Latina women: building culturally and gender-appropriate intervention.

    Margaret R. Weeks;Jean J. Schensul;Sunyna S. Williams;Merrill Singer

  • Essential ethnographic methods : a mixed methods approach

    Jean J. Schensul;Margaret Diane LeCompte

  • Mapping Social Networks, Spatial Data, & Hidden Populations

    Jean J. Schensul;Margaret Diane LeCompte;Robert T. Trotter;Ellen K. Cromley

  • The challenge of using Likert-type scales with low-literate ethnic populations

    Henrietta Bernal;Steve Wooley;Jean J. Schensul

  • Correlates of Self-Efficacy in Diabetes Self-Care Among Hispanic Adults With Diabetes:

    Henrietta Bernal;Steve Woolley;Jean J. Schensul;Jane K. Dickinson

  • Organizing Community Research Partnerships in the Struggle against AIDS

    Jean J. Schensul

  • Analysis and Interpretation of Ethnographic Data: A Mixed Methods Approach

    Margaret Diane LeCompte;Jean J. Schensul

  • Introduction to multi-level community based culturally situated interventions.

    Jean J. Schensul;Edison Trickett

  • Challenges in measuring concurrency, agency and intentionality in polydrug research.

    Jean J Schensul;Mark Convey;Gary J Burkholder

  • AIDS and the IV drug user: The local context in prevention efforts

    Merrill Singer;Zhongke Jia;Jean J. Schensul;Margaret Weeks

  • Collaborative Research And Social Change: Applied Anthropology In Action

    Donald D. Stull;Jean J. Schensul

Frequent Co-Authors

Merrill Singer
Merrill Singer University of Connecticut
Stephen P. Borgatti
Stephen P. Borgatti University of Kentucky
Penelope Hawe
Penelope Hawe University of Sydney
Kenneth R. McLeroy
Kenneth R. McLeroy Texas A&M University
Lisa Dierker
Lisa Dierker Wesleyan University
Amy J. Schulz
Amy J. Schulz University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence W. Green
Lawrence W. Green University of California, San Francisco
Gretchen J. Diefenbach
Gretchen J. Diefenbach Yale University
Edison J. Trickett
Edison J. Trickett University of Miami
Niranjan Saggurti
Niranjan Saggurti Population Council

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