T. H. Sinky
Oregon State University

Tassnym Sinky is a doctoral student in Public Health with a concentration in Health Promotion and Health Behavior at Oregon State University. Her main areas of research include women’s health in the Middle East, health disparities, and patient-provider communication. She was the primary researcher on this manuscript and her roles included conceptualizing the study, instrument development, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. She wrote the first draft of the manuscript and participated in subsequent revisions. The present manuscript represents her initial foray into the scientific literature.

M. Cheyney
Oregon State University

Melissa Cheyney obtained her PhD in Anthropology and her CPM (Certified Professional Midwife) in 2005. She is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Oregon State University and is currently serving as the Chair of the Division of Research for the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA). She is the PI on over a dozen projects related to women’s health, maternal and infant health, and midwifery in the US and abroad. She is has authored more than 20 articles and a book entitled “Born at Home” (2010). She participated in research design, data analysis and interpretation, write-up and revision of this manuscript.

M. M. Dolcini
Oregon State University

M. Margaret Dolcini obtained her doctorate in Health Psychology from the University of California, San Francisco, where she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship and served as faculty until 2006.  She is currently an associate professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University and is Director of the Youth and Young Adult Core at the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families.  Her research program addresses basic, intervention, and implementation science issues in HIV and STIs. Her work has been funded largely through NIH and she has published widely.  She participated in conceptualization of the study, measurement development, data analysis and interpretation, write-up and revision of this manuscript.