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Planning focus group interviews with asylum seekers: Factors related to the researcher, interpreter and asylum seekers
Author(s) -
Eklöf Niina,
Hupli Maija,
LeinoKilpi Helena
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nursing inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.66
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1440-1800
pISSN - 1320-7881
DOI - 10.1111/nin.12192
Subject(s) - interpreter , refugee , acknowledgement , focus group , multiculturalism , data collection , psychology , medical education , sociology , pedagogy , medicine , social science , political science , computer security , computer science , anthropology , law , programming language
The aim of this article was to discuss factors related to the researcher, interpreter and asylum seekers when planning focus group interviews with asylum seekers. Focus group interview is one of the basic data collection methods in descriptive nursing and health research. It has been used in multicultural research, allowing an opportunity to participate without literacy and to have linguistic and cultural support from other participants. Asylum seekers form a specific, vulnerable group, and the growing number of asylum seekers increases the need for research related to them. A culturally, methodologically and ethically high‐quality focus group interview is based on the researcher's special knowledge and skills, acknowledgement of asylum seekers as both individuals and part of cultural and communal groups, and careful planning of the interpreter's role during the interviews.