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Personal safety is paramount during field work (data collection). Use personal discretion in terms of risk assessment and adopt strategies that maintain safety e.g. collecting data in pairs / daylight hours only.
Below are suggestions of questions you may want to consider asking to start off conversations. You will need to tailor them so that they address your specific topic of choice.
· What do you think affects peoples’ health here (good and bad things)?
· Many factors can affect the health of people living here – do you have concerns around housing, finances, employment, relationships, exercise, food, smoking, alcohol or drugs?
· What are the facilities like in your neighbourhood, e.g. parks, shops, transport, groups, education, meeting places?
· What are the best and worst things about the health services you use?
· Which three things would you change here to improve people’s health?
QMUL-SMD-Video-Consent-Form-v1.0(1).pdfWhen obtaining verbal consent to interview community members for this project you may want to adapt the script below:
“Hello my name is ….. and I am a 3rd year medical student at Queen Mary University of London. As a part of my community health module, I have to do a project about the health needs of this community. Please could I spend 10 minutes asking you a few questions around this? I will need to take some notes and this information will inform a short presentation that I give on this topic to my fellow students and tutors”.
We advise any students wanting to take photos or videos identifying individuals to obtain written consent to use these photos for teaching purposes. If you do not have written consent, please ensure all the images used do not have any images with identifiable persons in them. The consent form is available to download on QMPlus. Please upload any consent forms onto the submission box on QMPLus and send to your GP tutor whose email you will be provided with.
Consent forms are to be used if identifiable data is collected from participants. For example, if names or photographs are taken which identify a person or their property then written consent should be taken. If data is anonymous and non-identifiable then verbal consent is sufficient. We suggest caution is used when considering what might identify a person, for example in certain circumstances a person could be identified if their profession and organisation was part of the data even if their name isn’t used.
Please see FAQ document for further details.
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