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Listening Sessions With Latinas: Documenting Life Contexts And Creating Connections, Ruth Belknap, Leona Vandevusse
Listening Sessions With Latinas: Documenting Life Contexts And Creating Connections, Ruth Belknap, Leona Vandevusse
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Objective: To use listening sessions with groups of Latinas to develop a contextual understanding of the lives of immigrant women to inform program development and ultimately better serve the community's needs for domestic violence services.
Design and Sample: This study was exploratory and descriptive, mixing qualitative listening sessions with quantitative methods. Seven listening group sessions were facilitated with 63 women participating.
Measures: Data included information from a short demographic questionnaire, texts of narrative from the sessions, and tallies of thematic comments made during the listening sessions.
Results: Themes derived from aggregated data from the listening sessions …