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Socio-demographic profile | District & Sub-county |
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Vulnerability narrative | As a group, when do you think you experienced life difficulties associated with conflict/war for the first time? What happened then? And then?] |
Which life difficulties associated with conflict/war have you experienced in your lifetime? | |
We would like to know more about your experiences of life difficulties associated with conflict/war, Can you describe what happened when you faced life difficulties? | |
Looking at your history, can you tell us how your well-being/lifestyles used to be before you experienced life difficulties associated with conflict/war? | |
What have been the changes in your well-being/lifestyles after you experienced the life difficulties associated with conflict/war? | |
Context of trauma and sexual behaviour | Are there any other people in your social environment [family, social environment like friendship networks] who experienced/are experiencing life difficulties associated with conflict/war like you? In what ways do you consider your life difficulties similar or different to theirs? |
Have you ever heard [on radio, from other people] or read [newspapers] about any other person or people who had the same life difficulties' associated with conflict/war as you? [If yes] In what ways is such a person/are such people's life difficulties' similar or different to yours? | |
Please, tell us about the self-protecting things/resources which used to be available to protect against life difficulties when your people would be face traumatizing events? [Probe traditional ways of managing life difficulties] | |
Which resources [social and political networks and institutional] are available to protect against life difficulties when people face traumatizing events? | |
Looking at your history, can you tell us how sexual decency/integrity in your society used to be preserved before life associated with conflict/war befell your home areas? | |
Looking at your current society how has life difficulties associated with conflict/war affected sexual decency/integrity? | |
Explanatory models of sexual behaviour in a post-conflict setting | Do you have a local terms or expression that describes your life difficulties associated with conflict/war? [What is that local term or expression?] |
According to you, what do you think are primary causes of your life difficulties? [Take special interest to note all that is mentioned] | |
Was/is there something happening in your family, at work or in your social life that could explain your life difficulties associated with conflict/war? [If answer is yes, as next question] | |
In your society, how do you deal with [manage, cope] life difficulties associated with conflict/war? What assistance or help is given to someone facing a life difficulty? | |
Are your life difficulties somehow linked or related to specific events that occurred in your lives? | |
Impact of conflict-related trauma on sexual behaviour | How have your life difficulties associated with conflict/war changed your life/lives? |
How has your life difficulty associated with conflict/war changed the way you feel or think about yourselves? | |
How has your life difficulty associated with conflict/war changed the way you look at life in general? [Probe for impact on sexual behaviour]? | |
What has been happening to your social and sexual lives ever since you faced the life difficulties associated with conflict/war? | |
How have your lifestyle difficulties associated with conflict/war changed the way others look at you? | |
How have life difficulties affected people's motivations, beliefs, values, practices and opinions about sexuality in this community? | |
For those who faced lifestyle difficulties associated with conflict/war and coped well, what can explain the resilience/hardiness/toughness? | |
How has you family or friends helped you helped you through this difficult period associated with conflict/war in your life? | |
How have your spiritual lives, faiths or religious practices helped you go through these difficult periods in your life? | |
Is there anything else you would like to add? |