RT Article
T1 Conducting Virtual Interviews With Sexual Assault Survivors and Their Informal Supports During COVID-19 and Beyond
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 39
IS 7/8
SP 1398
OP 1420
A1 Ullman, Sarah E.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882928865
AB The current paper describes the author’s experience conducting virtual interviews with sexual assault survivors and their informal supports (e.g., family, friend, partner) during the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing on past and present interviewing experiences with this population, and the recent literature on best practices for virtual interviewing and survivor/trauma-informed research methods. The experience of pivoting from past projects using face-to-face interview methods to doing virtual interviews with this population is presented and critically analyzed. Potential advantages and drawbacks of various methods and adaptations for doing virtual interviews in a dyadic sample of survivors and their informal supports are described to facilitate future research using virtual methods with sexual assault survivors and their informal supporters. Issues related to access (e.g., e.g., age, gender, race, ability, poverty) to interview participation are also noted as in need of more consideration. Finally, the impact on interviewers of doing this work in virtual versus face-to-face contexts is discussed.
K1 Online
K1 Virtual
K1 Methodology
K1 Interviews
K1 Sexual Assault
DO 10.1177/08862605231207619