Different Approaches to Cross-Lingual Focus Groups: Lessons From a Cross-Cultural Community-Based Participatory Research Project in the ENRICH Study

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

MairaQuintanilha¹ 

关键词: focus groups;    cross-lingual;    cross-cultural;    community-based;    focused ethnography;    interpretation;    translation;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406915621419

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Focus groups are a useful data-generation strategy in qualitative health research when it is important to understand how social contexts shape participants’ health. However, when cross-lingual focus groups are conducted across cultural groups, and in languages in which the researcher is not fluent, questions regarding the usefulness and rigor of the findings can be raised. In this article, we will discuss three different approaches to cross-lingual focus groups used in a community-based participatory research project with pregnant and postpartum, African immigrant women in Alberta, Canada. In two approaches, we moderated focus groups in women’s mother tongue with the support of real-time interpreters, but in the first approach, audio recording was used and in the second approach, audio recording was not used. In the third approach, a bilingual moderator facilitated focus groups in women’s mother tongue, with transcription and translation of audio-recorded data upon completion of data generation. We will d...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC