The research design involved the construction of a culturally tailored data collection instrument and selection of sample recruitment and data collection methods designed to maximise representation and access to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander women.
It was not a culturally comprehensive data set, the researchers admit, but a wide-ranging one.
This method has been found to be an effective method of generating and interpreting experience-centered, culturally orientated data with people of South Asian backgrounds.
However, areas that need attention to enable culturally sensitive data collection may be gleaned from practices in disclosure of pregnancy, the perception of stillbirth and the stillborn, and the context in which women make their health care choices.
Members of the task force provided data, culturally meaningful information, and expert opinion to guide algorithm development.
The questionnaire developed by the WHO for multi-centre hospital-based descriptive studies on abortions [ 21] was culturally modified for data collection.
The study approach was culturally anchored, with data collection undertaken in Swahili by local research assistants who were accustomed to the local environment and were familiar with the study area.
Cognitive anchors such as clock time and meal location, food grouping, food containers and condiments that are culturally specific guide the data entry process.
Some have noted that providers and health clinic staff will have to be trained in how to gather these data in culturally competent ways, and that LGBT community members will need to understand why these questions are being asked.
Interviews were considered by the local research groups to be a more culturally secure approach to data collection than a postal survey.
1 8 9 Despite the growing size of the urban Aboriginal population in Canada, accessible and culturally relevant population health data for this population are almost non-existent.
