Peres, Hagit
Sharaby, Rachel
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ashkelon Academic College (none)
Rothchild Foundation (none)
Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, IL (none)
Ashkelon Academic College (none)
Article History
Received: 17 November 2019
Accepted: 16 March 2020
First Online: 25 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The research obtained an approval from the Ashkelon Academic College Ethical Research Committee.No “Helsinki Ethics Committee” approval was required, since data contain no subjects who were patients nor families of patients. Data contain only interviews with mediators-health workers who provided their conscious and informed consent when interviewed.The Participatory Action Research was mainly held in an office and classroom areas of Ben Gurion University, where the participants, Arab-Bedouin women who worked as health cultural mediators, were trained at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University area of the project or in classrooms gathered for training workshops. Occasionally, the researcher visited the mediators at their work in the mother-and-child clinics.
: The interviewees were mediators in a health promotion project, who were asked to participate by the researcher, and voluntarily agreed to be interviewed. They provided an oral informed consent that was audio-recorded. They chose the location for their personal interviews, and the content and length of their interviews. Before the interview they were provided details on the research (also audio-recorded and transcribed to Hebrew) and were informed that they could refuse to be interviewed. None of them declined the request to be interviewed. In order to maintain their privacy, only general information was used, and pseudonyms were used instead of their real names.If requested by the editorial board, their informed consent can be translated and provided.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.