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Table 2 Community focus groups

From: Overcoming language barriers in community-based research with refugee and migrant populations: options for using bilingual workers

Focus Group or Interview

Agreed to be recorded

Women were from

Language of Focus group or Interview

Focus Group: Natural Occurring

Yes

Iraq

Arabic with Interpreter

Focus Group: Natural Occurring

Yes

India

English

Nigeria

Focus Group: Constructed

Yes

Macedonia

English

Liberia

Sudan

Congo

Myanmar (Burma)

Focus group: Constructed

Yes

Russia

English

Ukraine

Kazakhstan

Thailand

Afghanistan

Focus Group: Natural Occurring

Yes

Indonesia

English

Iran

Thailand

China

Interview

Yes

Indonesia

Indonesian with Interpreter

Interview

Yes

Congo

English and French No Interpreter (Both the participant and the interviewer spoke English and French)

Interview

No

Burundi

English

Interview

Yes

Sudan

Arabic with Interpreter

Interview

Yes

Macedonia

English

Interview

Yes

Sudan

Arabic with Interpreter