Non-English Interviews

Today I had my interview with Mr. Francisco Arias he was very intelligent and kind. The interview started with personal questions he was trying to get to know me. Since he started asking questions about myself first, this gave me a little bit of confidence I didn’t feel nervous anymore. I started talking about my background since he noticed an accent he knew that I was a bilingual person, this definitely gave me an extra point. Before I went to this interview I read about the hospital and why the job opening was available, this helped me to show my interest on the position and the vision of the hospital, and this was one thing that caught his attention.

The method used to study the hypothesis was by having 328 women completed five surveys up to 72 hours postpartum. They were between the ages of 18-42. Out of the group 68.6% were married or living with a partner and 43.3% had a job. The average number of years the women spent in school was 8.8yrs. More than half (59.2%), did not complete high school and only 2% (6) completed higher education. From the group, 19.2% of them had a miscarriage before. More than half (51.5%) had already

Qualitative research provides advantages for studies that involve special populations, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in research and those with low literacy. Qualitative data collection methods through open ended interviews, may be more effective and less intimidating than surveys for those who have been marginalized in research in the past (Bower & Scambler 2007). For instance, the Qualitative Research for Immigrant populations. Immigrants, however, may have different cultural backgrounds and previous exposure to research. Commonly adopted research procedures, such as the informed consent process, may be culturally inappropriate for research with culturally diverse populations, and hence require cultural adaptations (Lu & Gatua 2014).

Facilitating focus groups, interviews, allowed us to strengthen our qualitative research skills. As an outsider, the qualitative process was the most enjoyable to me. I was able to learn their way of living, strengths and challenges of their community. The process of creating the pretest and posttest surveys collectively was a challenge, yet another beneficially learning experience. I realized effective surveys take time to develop and need to be reviewed by multiple people. Developing poorly constructed questionaries’ is highly possible if no one takes the time to actually

I can only imagine what it would be like to be a student who is culturally different from their peers at school and not even the teachers or administrators know how to properly act around students of different cultural backgrounds. I personally would not be fond of being in an environment that made me feel uncomfortable or negative in any way. While interviewing my friend Stephanie, I learned what it was like to go to a school that was predominantly people of her race and then have to transfer to a school that was predominantly white. We discussed our school related experiences throughout kindergarten and high school. The main focus of our differences was our race and how our experiences were affected by it. Stephanie shared about the experiences

Cultural differences are also an important aspect of the critical incident as mother was from a Pakistan and had recently moved to England. Emma was from Pakistan has had only been in the country for a year and was finding it difficult to adjust and integrate into her community.. According to research migrant women experience feelings of great sadness, vulnerability, loneliness, isolation and wishing for family members to be around during the perinatal period (Drennan and Joseph, 2005). Emma did not know about the services available in the community such as children centres and sure start for support and had to be sign posted by the health visitor to these services. Gender and ethnicity are important factors which influence the vulnerability of a person. As a woman from Pakistan origin, motherhood signifies your importance and value in the society. Barns and Maple (1992) show how women hope that motherhood can give them identity and value as women.

Olsson and Lau (2015) did a great job of allowing the community to be active participants in this study, due to allowing the experts and women to help provide the direction of interventions to implement to make a difference in the increase of preventative health care against cancer. Hack (2013) shows how several factors can cause risk to not only the participant but the community. First, Hacker (2013) presents that there could be a risk to the structure of function of the group, due to possible disagreements between the participants and the researchers. Within this study, Olsson and Lau (2015) did not indicate that there were any women who refused to participate, but some of the women stated that they were scared. Therefore, the multiple interventions implemented and the focus groups could have been intrusive to those women who were afraid of taking a Pap smear test. Another factor that Hacker (2013) introduced was the dissemination of the

As one of the poorest countries globally, Sierra Leone struggles to improve their standard of maternal health. With one women dying every two minutes due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth, those who become pregnant in developing countries face extreme challenges (everymothercounts.org). Whether it may be ineffective medical care or noxious diseases such as HIV, "One in every 21 women is at risk of death in childbirth" (the guardian.com). Professionals in other countries are working towards providing educational opportunities for women and their families so that they may care for themselves. The prevalence of contraception, being around 11 percent, is extremely low in comparison to other nations but is one of the most influential aspects of the cultural

As Canada is a very diverse country, it is import to examine the role of culture and religion in the decision. In pronatalist western societies such as Canada, a diagnosis of infertility comes attached with social and cultural stigmas; it is considered a social norm for all couples to have children. In many cultures, fertility is regards as something to be respected and the label of infertility can bring shame to not only the women but the entire family (Ripke, 2015). The stigma felt by childless women, can be voluntary and involuntary, and is a result of cultural and societal beliefs and norms. Women almost always bear the brunt of this shame as many cultures still believe that the woman is at fault when it comes to infertility (Forsythe, 2009).

This report presents an interview with a bilingual called H.D . H.D. is a daughter of a Turkish immigrant family who lived in Australia for 12 years .H.D. gives examples from her personal life about how she became bilingual background , the challenges of second language acquisition , benefits and the role of languages in her life.

Today I have an interview. When thinking about the possession of this position and being the only deaf person, I obtain nervousness. I have skepticism that if the boss even knows sign language, so I philosophize about how to talk to him. Bringing a translator would prevail unprofessional, yet not understanding what I'm putting forth is too. Flying out of the shower while viciously repeatedly crack my cold clammy knuckles, I could feel the anxiety rise. Slowly breath in and out one breath at a time, yet I still have a panic attack. The boss giving off a warm welcome, as I annex the office. As our own selves glared at each other, I exceed clamminess. I feel my face turning into a bright red tomato, when I sign to him that I can't hear. He is

Woman-centred care focuses on women’s health, aspirations and expectations during pregnancy, as well as recognising that every woman is different, and therefore has a responsibility to make informed decisions for herself and her baby (Fahy, 2012, pp 150). (Guilliland & Pairman, 1996, pp 41) state that midwives “work to facilitate the optimal experience for the pregnant woman and her baby.” Midwives centre their work ensuring that their focus is purely on the woman, who defines her personal needs (Pairman & McAcra-Couper, 2015, pp 398). To enable woman-centred care, the (NMBA, 2008) states that midwives must participate in respectful partnerships with not only the woman, but other members of the health care team. Woman-centred care recognised a woman’s right to autonomy, with regards to choice, control over her pregnancy and baby and continuity of care (ANMC, 2006). A woman has the right to determine whether or not she accepts treatments, be given understandable explanations of any health issues, proposed treatments and the right to be made aware of any test

For my interview I chose to interview a lady that attends the Russian Orthodox church that my family attends. She is 19 years old and her native language is Ukrainian. She moved to Pennsylvania from the Ukraine when she was in 7th grade along with some of her siblings. She has been learning English since 5th grade, but when she moved here and began to speak English she found she was speaking on a pre-k level. She knew the alphabet, numbers up to 30, and she had a vocabulary of about 20-30 words (and this was in 7th grade!). DZ’s parents don’t live in the US, and they do not speak any English. Her uncle and aunt, which she lives with, does speak English but they have very thick accents. When she speaks to the older generations (like her uncle, aunt, mother, father, etc.) she speaks strictly Ukrainian but when she speaks to the younger generation in her family (like her cousins) she speaks to in English.

The topic that I have chosen is A Qualitative Study of Experiences of Women Using Modern Contraception in Wakiso Distract, Uganda. This study focuses on thirty women who have undergone horrible situations when it came to contraception. This case study was conducted from August and September of 2013. Between these months many women have reported negative feedback for the use of contraception. This is a major problem, which can affect the way that they use contraception in the future.

Focus groups are a prominent method of enquiry, regularly used within the field of social science and in particular, qualitative research. The focus group practice involves a number of participants having an open discussion on a specific topic, set by a researcher. The researcher acts as a moderator to aid discussion by using probes to collect desirable data. This process is recorded and transcripts are used to interpret and analyse given information.