Reflections on Leveraging Large-Scale Epidemiological Cohort Data to Enrich Qualitative Interview Sampling

Aranka V. Ballering, Marieke Haan, Elske Hogendoorn, Sterre van der Ziel, Sarah M. Burke, Donald G. van Tol, Judith G. M, Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Department of Primary and Long-term Care, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

Published online on May 15, 2026

Abstract

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Due to differing research traditions and philosophical positions, qualitative and epidemiological research are rarely integrated. Therefore, here, we reflect on how we integrated epidemiological methods into a purposive sampling approach to obtain a ...