Mosquito Net Distribution Pre-Survey

August 8th, 2008
(Left: Allen of the Community Outreach Team Right: Patient of BA clinic)
Nicholyn and I spent the morning with John and Allen of The Bishop Asili Community Outreach Team practicing asking the survey questions for the Mosquito Net Baseline survey. After interviewing several people we discovered that a few of the questions were difficult for people to understand, so now we will be able to rewrite them in a culturally sensitive and understandable way before going out into the community to conduct the real survey.

(Left to Right: Salango of the BA HIV Post Test Club, John of the Community Outreach Team & Nicholyn Chang)
Left: Allen, Right: Patient of Bishop Asili Clinic)
We also sat in on a practice focus group discussion led by John and Allen, which is a means by which to get feedback on the same issue, but using a different forum. Nicholyn describes it as triangulation, which is a strategy used to ensure accuracy in data collection.

Afterwords, John and Allen came by to review the practice session that we conducted. We went over all of the questions and talked about all of the necessary changes. Nicholyn took notes so that she can make changes to the document before we conduct the actual survey. It was really interesting to learn what kinds of changes needed to be made (e.g. Malaria should be referred to as “Fever”) in order to ensure that average villagers will understand the questions being asked of them. We gave John and Allen a great deal of praise for all of their hard work. Allen had other commitments to a family member in Kampala, but he stayed in Luwero for the day to help us with this practice survey and for no compensation.
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