Considering the Vignette Technique and its Application to a Study of Drug Injecting and HIV Risk and Safer Behaviour
Abstract
Vignettes are stories generated from a range of sources including previous research findings. They make reference to important factors in the study of perceptions, beliefs and attitudes. Vignettes have primarily been used by psychologists in North America and used in quantitative surveys but more recently they have been used in a small number of qualitative studies. Drawing from a range of studies in the social sciences this paper considers the value of vignettes together with the difficulties associated with the technique. It introduces the technique in a study that explores drug injectors’ perceptions of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk and safer behaviour inside and outside the prison system.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
Attention to features such as verbal immediacy, temporal proximity, level of detail, format of response options, and cognitive demand may help improve predictive accuracy of hypothetical scenarios, and constructing hypotheticals in second-person as opposed to third-person language matters, as does eliciting "should" as opposed to "would" responses.
“Attention to features such as verbal immediacy, temporal proximity, level of detail, format of response options, and cognitive demand may help improve predictive accuracy (108). Similar to the difference between asking about preference and asking about acceptability, constructing hypotheticals in second-person as opposed to third-person language matters, as does eliciting “should” as opposed to “”
From Lessons from HeLa Cells: The Ethics and Policy of Biospecimens (2016) · cites this paper as [66]
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Individual Swift Trust and Knowledge-Based Trust in Face-to-Face and Virtual Team Members
Robert, L. P., Denis, A. R., & Hung, Y.-T. C. (2009) · Journal of Management Information Systems · doi:10.2753/mis0742-1222260210 · Cited by 514 · see citing works
Patient apprehensions about the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare
Richardson, J. P., Smith, C., Curtis, S., Watson, S., Zhu, X., Barry, B., & Sharp, R. R. (2021) · npj Digital Medicine · doi:10.1038/s41746-021-00509-1 · Cited by 424 · see citing works
Lessons from HeLa Cells: The Ethics and Policy of Biospecimens
Beskow, L. M. (2016) · Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics · doi:10.1146/annurev-genom-083115-022536 · Cited by 146 · see citing works
“Similar to the difference between asking about preference and asking about acceptability, constructing hypotheticals in second-person as opposed to third-person language matters, as does eliciting “should” as opposed to “would” responses (66).”
BackgroundHypothetical Vignettes in Empirical Bioethics Research
Ulrich, C. M., & Ratcliffe, S. J. (2007) · Advances in Bioethics · doi:10.1016/s1479-3709(07)11008-6 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
van der Pas, S., van Tilburg, T., & Knipscheer, K. C. P. M. (2005) · Educational and Psychological Measurement · doi:10.1177/0013164405278559 · Cited by 45 · see citing works
Altering Perceived Cultural and Economic Threats can Increase Immigrant Helping
Burhan, O. K., & van Leeuwen, E. (2016) · Journal of Social Issues · doi:10.1111/josi.12181 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Developing Video vignettes for tourism research: protocol and quality indicators
Chen, N., Hsu, C. H. C., & L. Pearce, P. (2022) · Journal of Travel Research · doi:10.1177/00472875211051413 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
- Authors
- Hughes, R.
- Affiliations
- University of York (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hughes, Rhidian
- Venue
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1998-05
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 381-400
- ISSN
- 0141-9889 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9566
- OpenAlex
- W2067501346
- Cited by
- 537
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 39 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 32 · 2018: 27 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 30 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 32 · 2013: 26 · 2012: 23
- FWCI
- 2.44
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Sociology of Health & Illness (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Keywords
- vignettes, HIV risk perception, prisons, people who inject drugs, attitudes and beliefs, qualitative research
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
