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avje otrok in mladostnikov | health of children and adolescents 104 and about general health- educational approaches in the medical treatment of
Roma women and Roma children.
Sample description
The participants of the focus groups were health workers who had contact with
Roma women in their work. They were able to, directly or indirectly, perceive
the results of the health-educational intervention. The first focus group con-
sisted of women’s dispensary employees and a general practitioner, the sec-
ond was focused on employees of the preschool dispensary (paediatrician), and
the third was made up of community nurses and a student from the Faculty of
Health Sciences. Ten participants had more than fifteen years of experience in
the medical treatment of Roma women or children.
Description of research and data processing
Focus groups were made with eleven female health workers in the selected
health centre. Based on the presence of employees, three focus groups were
formed. After presenting the purpose and process of work in a focus group,
they were familiarised with the basic principles of the discussion, the prin-
ciple of confidentiality and anonymity, and the key contents of the research
were generated (Poplas Susič, 2014). They were again shown the health and
educational materials that were distributed to the Roma in the settlement
or in the dispensary. Before answers were recorded, they filled out a form
with demographic data, level of education, occupation, work experience ex-
pressed in years, work experience with Roma women. With these questions,
we tried to establish Roma women’s acceptance of the leaflet by, their re-
sponse to invitations from women’s dispensary, acceptance of the learned
rules in the health centre regarding timing, ordering, prevention, etc. The
primary texts of the focus groups were analysed according to the princi-
ples of qualitative text analysis. The preparation phase was followed by open
coding, category formation and abstraction (Schreier, 2012). The obtained
drafts were qualified according to their properties and dimensions (Vogri-
nec, 2008; Friese, 2012).
Results
Based on the independent coding of the transcripts of all three discussions, 10
categories were formed, in which 147 codes were found with a total frequen-
cy of 187. The number of codes and the corresponding topics are shown in Ta-
ble 1.
Roma women and Roma children.
Sample description
The participants of the focus groups were health workers who had contact with
Roma women in their work. They were able to, directly or indirectly, perceive
the results of the health-educational intervention. The first focus group con-
sisted of women’s dispensary employees and a general practitioner, the sec-
ond was focused on employees of the preschool dispensary (paediatrician), and
the third was made up of community nurses and a student from the Faculty of
Health Sciences. Ten participants had more than fifteen years of experience in
the medical treatment of Roma women or children.
Description of research and data processing
Focus groups were made with eleven female health workers in the selected
health centre. Based on the presence of employees, three focus groups were
formed. After presenting the purpose and process of work in a focus group,
they were familiarised with the basic principles of the discussion, the prin-
ciple of confidentiality and anonymity, and the key contents of the research
were generated (Poplas Susič, 2014). They were again shown the health and
educational materials that were distributed to the Roma in the settlement
or in the dispensary. Before answers were recorded, they filled out a form
with demographic data, level of education, occupation, work experience ex-
pressed in years, work experience with Roma women. With these questions,
we tried to establish Roma women’s acceptance of the leaflet by, their re-
sponse to invitations from women’s dispensary, acceptance of the learned
rules in the health centre regarding timing, ordering, prevention, etc. The
primary texts of the focus groups were analysed according to the princi-
ples of qualitative text analysis. The preparation phase was followed by open
coding, category formation and abstraction (Schreier, 2012). The obtained
drafts were qualified according to their properties and dimensions (Vogri-
nec, 2008; Friese, 2012).
Results
Based on the independent coding of the transcripts of all three discussions, 10
categories were formed, in which 147 codes were found with a total frequen-
cy of 187. The number of codes and the corresponding topics are shown in Ta-
ble 1.
