Enhancing demographic survey protocols to characterise household dynamics that influence health – a participatory approach from rural Eswatini

Brear, Michelle; Shabangu, Pinky N.; Hammarberg, Karin; Fisher, Jane

doi:10.1080/17441692.2021.1936118

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“…The DHS was co-designed and implemented face-to-face by community co-researchers in the local language siSwati. It is described in detail in Brear et al (2022). Results of the DHS and FGDs conducted within the PHR are not reported in this article.…”

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“…The PHR group were surprised that analysis of the DHS data performed by MB (and reported separately in Brear et al 2022) showed that two-thirds of homestead DHS respondents were actually women. These women disrupted social norms by nominating, and consenting for themselves as homestead DHS respondents, either because they were widowed (one-third) or their husbands lived away most of the time (one-third) (Brear et al 2022). Women who responded to the homestead DHS because their husbands lived away (typically as migrant workers) nonetheless nominated the absent men with who the land was registered at the umphakatsi as the homestead heads.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Recognition that structural factors influence participation decisions and have potential to coerce participation, emerged relatively recently in research ethics literature. Empirical evidence to elucidate the nature of “structural” coercion and influence is needed to optimise respect for autonomy through voluntary informed consent. We present findings from ethnographic data about community co-researchers’ experiences designing and implementing demographic and health survey consent procedures in participatory health research in Eswatini. Informed by Bourdieu's sociological theory of multiple types of capital/power, our findings detail structural influences on research participation decisions, highlight the inherently power-laden dynamics of consent interactions, and suggest that to be optimally ethical, research ethics principles and practices should consider and account for structural power dynamics.

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