Key Informant Interview and Focus Group Discussion Guides Sample Clauses

Key Informant Interview and Focus Group Discussion Guides. We created semi-structured, open ended interview and focus group discussion guides with three principle categories. The first category of questions focused on the meaning of unintended pregnancies, and whether and how residents discuss unintended pregnancies. The second category centered on cultural and community practices that are thought to be responsible for unintended pregnancies from the perspective of the participants. The final category paid attention to social interactions with individuals who have unintended pregnancies, and specifically how unintended pregnancies are addressed by the community. All questions in the three categories were open ended and probing for each new theme was done to gather adequate information (for example, “What do you mean? Or “Would you tell me more about that?). Although interview guides had been developed prior, the open ended probing identified unanticipated issues areas noted as important by the participants. The open ended questions also encouraged personal perspectives. Moreover, we were not strict in the order of questions as we allowed for a flexible flow in the conversation according to responses from the participants; however, we ensured that the key questions were discussed. The FGD and KII guides were designed in English and translated to Chichewa, and were crosschecked for accuracy by the local research team. Both guides were designed to ask about norms and practices, not about personal experiences, because the study aim was to describe community norms. The questions were adapted to be different for KIIs and FGDs; for KIIs they were phrased to specifically ask for individual expert opinions, while for FGDs they were phrased to facilitate effective discussion of norms among participants. The objective was to ensure depth of information for KII and diversity of information for FGD.