As a group, we developed a thirty-two-question survey. This survey consisted of thirteen demographic questions. We posted the survey in the emergency room break area at two local hospitals. These local hospitals were Candler Hospital and Memorial Health University Medical Center. We also distributed the survey by posting the survey through our Facebook accounts in hopes that we would receive some feedback and results. We wanted to get results throughout the hospital because it was a great place to get information for Awareness of Inequality in Healthcare. As we were developing our survey, we knew we had a large number of questions that could be asked. However, we decided to use a method called chunking. Chunking allows for our group to split up our survey into blocks. Those blocks were: Racial Inequality in Healthcare, Gender Inequality in Healthcare, Economic Inequality in Healthcare, and LGBTQ+ Inequality in Healthcare. After splitting up the content, we were easily able to develop about three to four questions for each block. We brought them to the group meeting, and further developed each question into what we thought was best for our survey. However, if you didn’t personally experience inequality in healthcare, we wanted to be sure to include witnessing an event. We included an observational question. This observational question allowed the people who took the survey and didn’t experience any inequality in healthcare themselves, to make others voices loud when they couldn’t.
In Figure #2, we see the second building block come together. We see the variety of genders who took our survey. The majority of the participants identified as female. The females took the lead with twenty-three participants, six participants identified as males, and one identified themselves as a transgender man.
In Figure #3, our third building block, economic status, is reflected. We had a majority of the participants in the $100,0000-$149,999 bracket. However, we had a variety of data in this section. The data shows that we had eight participants in the $100,000-$149,999 bracket, we had four participants in the $80,000-$89,999 bracket, we had five participants in the $60,000-$69,999 bracket. In addition to this we had four participants fall into the $30,000-$39,999 bracket, two participants fall into the $70,000-$79,999, we had three participants fall into the $50,000 to $59,999 bracket, we had two participants fall into the $40,000-$49,999 bracket, and we had two participants fall into the $20,000-$29,999 bracket.
In Figure #4, we have our last building block come into play. This building block falls into our LGBTQ+ category. As you can see the majority of our participants are Heterosexual/Straight. We had twenty-three participants identified as Heterosexual/Straight, we had four participants identify as Bisexual, and we had three participants identify as Lesbian.
In Figure #5, we asked a question in reference to whether the participants work in healthcare or do not. We found that 73% of the participants worked in healthcare. As a group we decided that we wanted our participants to include those working in healthcare and those that recieve healthcare. Our sample had a majority of respondents that included healthcare. Therefore, we only had two participants who were College of Coastal Georgia students.