Talking about sex in pregnancy

Reflections from the field in urban South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15098290
AutoresLangelihle Mlotshwa (0000-0002-5973-0767, Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, autor de correspondencia), L Manderson (0000-0002-7883-1790, University of the Witwatersrand), Charles Chasela (0000-0001-8362-5986, University of the Witwatersrand), Sonja Merten (0000-0003-4115-106X, Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
Año2018
Volumen20
Número11
Páginas1157-1170
Fecha de publicación2018-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Health & Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-1058 • E-ISSN: 1464-5351
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13691058.2017.1420233
PMID29381125
OpenAlexW2790516234
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas36

Qualitative research with close engagement in the field allows researchers and participants to build relationships and establish trust, enabling researchers to collect meaningful and sensitive information. Drawing on findings from a study conducted in an urban setting in South Africa, we discuss the challenges faced when interviewing pregnant women with HIV infection, retaining them in the study, and extending the study to include their partners. We discuss the dynamics of pregnancy and draw lessons from interviews concerned with personal, sensitive issues. The study on which we draw was conducted in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was nested in a larger prospective cohort study of women and their infants, which in turn was part of a case control study. Sensitive topics are difficult and complex, but to ignore these and stay in safe territory is to ignore some of the most pressing questions of our time. It is important that those who conduct interviews are well trained and able to engage empathetically with participants, and that some form of counselling is available for both participants and researchers

Family medicine · Field (mathematics · Field research · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Interview · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology