Table 4.
Judgment and response: Summary of responses to cognitive interview questions eliciting information on perceived level of comfort and difficulty experienced by self and potentially experienced by others
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Decision‐making topic or question n = 48 |
Judgment | Difficulty | Discomfort | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Example | n | Example | n | Example | |
| Whether or not you consult a doctor or go to a clinic when you are ill | 3 (6%) | Others may not understand/need time to think (1) | 2 (4%) | I do not know what my mother in law thinks/minds if I tell something (1); cannot remember (1) | 2 (4%) | Novelty of question/never thought in this way (2) |
| How much you can rest when you are ill? | 2 (4%) | Others may not understand (1) | 2 (4%) | Novelty of question/thinking (1); cannot measure amount of rest (1) | 2 (4%) | I cannot explain my responses well (1) |
| Whether or not to have a/another child | — | 4 (8%) | Husband is away, but it is usually a joint decision (1); conceiving is troublesome, so question was tough (1); I shall not take [another child], what will I tell? (1) | 1 (2%) | Had trouble understanding the first time (1) | |
| Whether or not you use a contraceptive method | — | 2 (4%) | Never forget matter of the past. Never thought it seemed to be tough (1); I do not understand term “family planning” (1) | 4 (8%) | Tough question/I did not understand (2); feeling ashamed (1) | |
| What foods to prepare every day? | 2 (4%) | Difficult (1); [others are] shy, uneducated (1) | 1 (2%) | Difficult to think [of response] (1) | — | |
| Consulting a doctor/going to a clinic during you current or most recent pregnancy | — | — | 1 (2%) | Household member (mother) present (1) | ||
| How much you worked during your current or most recent pregnancy? | 1 (2%) | [Others are] uneducated (1) | — | — | ||
| Whether your child visits the health clinic to see if he/she is growing well | 1 (2%) | I had difficulty in understanding [question] (1); I cannot explain responses well (1) | — | — | ||
| Who generally makes decisions about whether to purchase [product]? | — | 1 (2%) | I cannot explain responses well (1) | 1 (2%) | [Would] rather ask interviewer (1) | |
| Do you trust your husband to do things that are in your best interest? | — | — | 1 (2%) | I am afraid to tell (1) | ||
| When you disagree with your husband, do you feel comfortable telling him/her that you disagree? | 2 (4%) | [The question is] difficult/I cannot understand (2) | 5 (10%) | Tough [language] (4); understood [the question], but unable to tell because of fear (2) | 3 (6%) | I am afraid of getting in trouble (2); it is a big question—I disliked the question (1) |
Note. For judgment, participants were asked to determine if other women they knew would find it difficult to answer the questions and why. For responses, participants were asked if and why they found project‐level Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index questions easy or difficult or felt uncomfortable.