Questions:
3. Beliefs affecting health care may vary even within identified cultural groups. Specific data is often unclear due to
a) lack of people who will cooperate with studies.
b) inappropriate phrasing of questions to gather data.
c) failure to use language that can be understood by those surveyed.
d) inadequate characterization of ethnicity in existing data.
(source: SGEC paper: - Aging and Health: American Indian/Alaska Native Elders )
If you selected a) lack of people who will cooperate with studies.
This is rarely a problem as long as those actually speaking with or providing the survey forms have been adequately trained.
Return to Question 3 and consider another option.
If you selected b) inappropriate phrasing of questions to gather data.
While questions can use phrasing to skew answers, ethical surveyers go to great lengths and pilot studies to avoid this problem. Please consider another option.
Return to Question 3 and consider another option.
If you selected c) failure to use language that can be understood by those surveyed.
.....This may be true in some circumstances, though ethical surveyers go to great lengths in review and pilot testing to avoid language confusion. Another option creates greater obstacles.
Return to question 3 and consider another option.
If you selected d) inadequate characterization of ethnicity
....Correct. "There still exists large recent data sets that do not give adequate characterization of ethnicity. American Indians are still classified as "other" in some data bases" (p. 35). Adding to this is the rise in numbers of interracial children and adults who select "other" rather than be forced to choose one or the other parent's ethnicity. Some groups also select "other" as when a Black Haitian is faced with the choices of "African-American" or "other" and he/she does not identify with "African-American."
Proceed to Question 4.