Local Health Department Officials Interviews on Mental Health Factors, 2014–2015

Twenty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of local health department officials in 2014–2015. The data supports a qualitative study by Jonathan Purtle to understand perceptions of population mental health and develop a conceptual framework for LHD engagement. This is an Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) data project hosted on Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Analyze thematic content of interview transcripts based on the described thematic content analysis.
• Identify factors influencing health department activities based on the study's second objective.
• Develop conceptual frameworks for public health engagement based on the study's third objective.
• Assess inter-rater reliability in qualitative coding based on the mention of κ statistics.
• Study perceptions of population mental health among officials based on the study's first objective.

Strengths

• Twenty-one interviews provide a substantive qualitative sample.
• Transcripts were double coded and inter-rater reliability statistics (κ ≥0.60) were calculated, suggesting methodological rigor.
• The study has clear objectives for understanding perceptions, identifying factors, and developing a framework.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is from 2014–2015; freshness should be verified for current applicability.

Provenance

Source

Jonathan Purtle, QDR Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Purposive sample of LHD officials interviewed via semi-structured interviews, analyzed using thematic content analysis.

Time Range

2014–2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 07:15:17; freshness should be verified.