Table 2

Questions asked during data collection

Domain of inquiry

Probable questions to ask

Socio-demographic profile

District & Sub-county

Village/Camp

Site

Number of participants

Moderator

Note taker

Date

Starting time

Ending time

Transcriber

Gender (number of men or number women for FGD)

Age (age range for FGD)

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?

Muhwezi et al. Conflict and Health 2011 5:22   doi:10.1186/1752-1505-5-22