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video interviews: Padmajata

Video interviews are available in high- and low-quality video format and as a transcription.

section one – personal information

1. How do you identify yourself?
   [high quality video, 2.78 mb; transcript]
2. Could you explain a little about your Buddhist background?
   [high quality video, 6 mb; transcript]
3. What role does Buddhism have in your everyday life?
   [high quality video, 6.33 mb; transcript]
4. What sort of questions would you feel comfortable with someone asking to establish your ethnicity?
   [high quality video, 1.93 mb; transcript]
5. How does the Buddhist naming system work?
   [high quality video, 5.97 mb; transcript]
6. How did you become a student in mental healthcare?
   [high quality video, 8.9 mb; transcript]

section two – faith and culture and practising healthcare

1. How does your faith/culture influence your perception of illness?
   [high quality video, 8.93 mb; transcript]
2. Are injury, illness and disease something to suffer or something to cure?
   [high quality video, 4.9 mb; transcript]
3. What does it mean to you when someone is ill?
   [high quality video, 9.32 mb; transcript]
4. Is physical illness different to mental illness?
   [high quality video, 8.54 mb; transcript]
5. Do you think that following someone's requirements for their faith/culture makes a difference to their recovery? Any examples?
   [high quality video, 5.73 mb; transcript]
6. How have you dealt with conflicts (if there have been any) between your work and your faith or culture?
   [high quality video, 13 mb; transcript]

section three – being ill themselves

1. Can you think of anything that you would need or even expect staff to know if you had to stay in hospital?
   [high quality video, 3.7 mb; transcript]

section four –conflict between faith or culture and healthcare practise

1. How do you cope with the medical imperative to use a treatment, method or medication you would not use yourself because of your faith/culture?
   [high quality video, 10.53 mb; transcript]
2. Do you feel that Buddhism has any effect on your healthcare practice?
   [high quality video, 4.18 mb; transcript]
3. How do you feel about treating people made ill by practices your faith does not support, such as drug abuse?
   [high quality video, 8 mb; transcript]

section five - working conditions

1. What would you like to see improved in your working conditions over the next few years?
   [high quality video, 8.9 mb; transcript]
2. How do your colleagues relate to you?
   [high quality video, 6.55 mb; transcript]
3. What provision is there where you work for you to carry out your schedule of prayer, meditation, fasting, religious holiday observance etc?
   [high quality video, 7.2 mb; transcript]
4. How would you like to see services changed to provide a more culturally-aware healthcare service?
   [high quality video, 8.6 mb; transcript]

section six - misc questions

1. Have you ever recognised prejudice in yourself? Or made assumptions about people?
   [high quality video, 7.5 mb; transcript]
2. What happens when you visit a patient at home in their community for the first time?
   [high qality video, 7 mb; transcript]
3. How do you feel about subjects such as the use of pain relief or the increasing numbers of terminations?
   [high quality video, 13.2 mb; transcript]
4. How do you feel about organ donation and transplants?
   [high quality video, 10 mb; transcript]
5. What is your Buddhist practice?
   [high quality video, 10.95 mb; transcript]

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