APPENDIX II Information Project title:
What is health for a number of female IDP´s in Georgia
Date: 2010-03-27 – 2010-05-31
Study manager:
Anneli Hagen, Zandra Persson
Email at Malmö University:
if05756@mah.stud.se if061204@mah.stud.se
Studying at Malmö University, Faculty of Health and Society, 206 05 Malmö, Tfn 040- 6657000
Education: Nursing Science Level: Bachellor
Information on the project: We are two nursing students from Sweden in Northern Europe. We are now studying on our last year before our exams and will be here in Georgia for about two months. We are here to perform a project thesis, and wish to interview you and a couple of more women in the camp on the subject health. We wish to get an in-depth understanding of what health is for you. Hopefully this might bring new ideas for the people working in this camp on how to better fulfill your needs concerning health in the short and long term. For us, as future nurses we have to detect patients’ needs by asking them what health is for them. How people define their needs, and how they prioritize amongst these needs or how they believe these needs should be fulfilled is a process which is
individual. Health can be much more than the absence of illness. We both value human rights, and the global women rights especially, and that is why we wish to carry out this study in Georgia. Living in a refugee camp often has a crucial impact on health, both physical and psychological, and women are in many ways especially vulnerable. As mentioned above we wish to interview a couple of women in this camp. We wish for each woman to participate approximately three or four times. The first and the last interview will be group interviews, which will be deepened with one or two individual interviews in between. The interviews will take place in one of the organizations offices’, and there will be a female interpreter present during the interviews. The interviews will be recorded on tape, and we will also write parts of the interview down, and compile a report with the most common findings. All
participation will be completely of one’s free will, and can be terminated at any time. Participation will also be confidential, which means that no unauthorized person shall have access to the interviews. No names will be displayed in the written report and regards will be taken to minimize the risk that the information can be traced back to you. We, as well as the interpreter, are bound by professional secrecy. The interviews will last for about an hour, and we might want to interview you two or three times. All the interviews will be performed on your premises, concerning what time of the day and which day of the week.
We hope that You would like to help us with the study by taking part in the interviews. Best regards, Anneli and Zandra.
Hereby, are you willing to participate in this study? (will be ultimately at Appendix 1)
