Gaceta Sanitaria
Volume 23, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 90-92

Strategies to recruit immigrant women to participate in qualitative research [Estrategias para reclutar mujeres inmigrantes para participar en una investigación cualitativa] (Article) (Open Access)

Pons-Vigués M.* , Puigpinós R. , Rodríguez D. , Fernández de Sanmamed M.J.
  • a Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP)
  • b Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP)
  • c Agència de Salut Pública de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
  • d Equip d'Atenció Primària Horta 7D, Institut Catalá de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Objective: The present article aims to describe the process of selecting and recruiting women from distinct sociocultural backgrounds who participated in a qualitative research project and to outline the difficulties encountered according to the women's origin. Methods: Research was carried out in Barcelona from 2007 to 2008 to identify how culture influences participation in a breast cancer early detection program. Results: The study population consisted of native women and immigrant women from developing countries aged 40 to 69 years old resident in Barcelona. Participants were recruited through multiple strategies: key informants, cultural mediators, healthcare professionals, associations, religious institutions, the media, posters, adult education and language schools, and the population census. Conclusions: The recruitment process cannot be confined to a single source and associations, religion institutions and cultural mediators are the most effective resources. © 2009 SESPAS.

Author Keywords

qualitative research Immigration Field work

Index Keywords

psychological aspect Communication developing country interpersonal communication Developing Countries human middle aged Aged persuasive communication religion Humans Breast Neoplasms Emigrants and Immigrants breast tumor female Spain Teaching Materials leadership cultural factor Article adult Women migration Communications Media patient selection Cultural Characteristics mass medium attitude to health teaching early diagnosis
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-72149093511&doi=10.1016%2fj.gaceta.2009.07.006&partnerID=40&md5=dd85948786ad2996d326b57c459b821d
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2009.07.006
ISSN: 02139111
Cited by: 6
Original Language: Spanish