Prospective participants will complete a sign-in sheet by providing name, age, sex, address email and telephone number. Those who sign in will be screened by means of a brief interview to determine eligibility for participation and focus group assignment. Selection will be made on a “first come” basis for each of six focus groups, one group for each of the following: Muslim males, Muslim females, non-Muslim males, non-Muslim females, Muslim youth and one non-Muslim youth. A minimum of seven participants will be selected for each group. In addition, a seventh focus group will be formed by drawing one or two people from each of the earlier groups. The participants of the seventh focus group will be the candidates for the pilot. |
Six focus groups (three each with recent and non-recent immigrants) will be conducted of twelve WA immigrant women aged 18 or older. Participants will consist of women who were born and have lived in the following countries up to at least the age of 14 years: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. The participants will be recruited through MWIRD, and two other community-based agencies that serve large numbers of WA immigrant women. The focus groups will explore topics related to participants: (i) self-perceived health status; (ii) the services that they receive and need; (iii) health care coverage; (iv) when they obtain health care for themselves and/or for their families, (v) expectations and definitions of good health and good health care and how education or occupational level may influence this; (vi) how their relocation in the US or another Western country influences their health status; and (vii) how gender inequalities within cultural and familial settings influences health status and access to care. |
