Women's Studies 2244 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nonprobability Sampling, Victimisation, Pelvic Examination

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2244
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Lesbian"s health-related experience of care and noncare - stevens. Lesbians report feeling unsafe in the hc environment, and feel they may be subjected to physical endangerment, infliction of pain, unconcern, or neglect. Empirical evidence indicates that many hc providers harbor beliefs that lesbians are sick, abnormal, immoral, and dangerous. Lesbian clients report feelings of alienation/rejection of the hc system. Majority of investigations in this area are focused on routine gynecologist visits. This particular study explores how lesbians from a wide variety of racial backgrounds and economic circumstances experience clinical encounters across a full spectrum of providers, facilities, and health conditions. San francisco - wide visible population of lesbians. Community-based purposive sampling used to select people for individual interviews. Snowball techniques used to get more people for this study. 45 lesbians total participated in the study. Data collected for a year - 32 individual interviews, 13 divided into 3 focus groups. 51% of sample = woc, 49% euro-american.