Home Care of Children With Diarrhea in Banguis Therapeutic Landscape (Central African Republic)
We explore how the therapeutic landscape of Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, shaped and reflected caregivers’ home care of childhood diarrhea. Using interviews, group discussions, and participant observation, we found that caregivers described several categories of diarrhea, but in practice, adopted an experimental approach to home diarrheal care. Many managed incertitude by initially dosing children with street medicines and herbal infusions; they delayed seeking professional medical care to avoid expenses, observed their children’s symptoms, consulted social networks, and used therapeutic food...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 18, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Giles-Vernick, T., Bainilago, L., Fofana, M., Bata, P., Vray, M. Tags: Evidence For Practice: Articles Source Type: research
Drawing on Accounts of Long-Term Urinary Catheter Use: Design for the "Seemingly Mundane"
The design of the Foley catheter has not changed since 1937. Scientists interested in medical technology tend to focus on state-of-the-art designs for newsworthy specialties rather than the more mundane technologies of daily life. We interviewed 36 people living with a long-term urinary catheter in the United Kingdom, who described limitations of the current catheter design, including infections and complications and consequences for social life and relationships, and their perceptions of whose responsibility it was to improve the design. All took steps to hide the urine bag, but the need to use a catheter and urine bag ha...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 18, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Chapple, A., Prinjha, S., Feneley, R., Ziebland, S. Tags: Evidence For Practice: Articles Source Type: research
Methodological and Epistemological Considerations in Utilizing Qualitative Inquiry to Develop Interventions
The purpose of this article is to discuss methodological and epistemological considerations involved in using qualitative inquiry to develop interventions. These considerations included (a) using diverse methodological approaches and (b) epistemological considerations such as generalization, de-contextualization, and subjective reality. Diverse methodological approaches have the potential to inform different stages of intervention development. Using the development of a psychosocial hope intervention for advanced cancer patients as an example, the authors utilized a thematic study to assess current theories/frameworks and ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 18, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Duggleby, W., Williams, A. Tags: Evidence For Practice: Commentary Source Type: research
Researcher Linguistic Vulnerability: A Note on Methodological Implications
We reflect on the experiences of a researcher conducting a pilot exercise project with marginalized research participants within the substance use disorder treatment field, in a language that was nonnative to her. While the project collected and analyzed quantitative data, the researcher was motivated by qualitative inquiry’s commitment to reducing participant–researcher distance and power differences. Despite multiple sources of power imbalances favoring the researcher, the ability of participants to speak their native language to a nonnative researcher, and the researcher’s active recognition of her lin...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Muller, A. E., Gubrium, E. Tags: CBPR: Endnote Source Type: research
Anthropological Perspectives on Participation in CBPR: Insights From the Water Project, Maras, Peru
In this article, we anthropologically explore one part of the process of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): participation. Participation in CBPR is usually conceptualized as whether, and the degree to which, community members are involved in the research process. Our focus regarding participation is less on quantity and more on quality of the interaction between community members and researchers; within this context, we elaborate the concept of "bridging" as it is understood in CBPR. Using data from our ongoing "Water Project" in the Peruvian Andes, we explore how interaction, as a participative act of the rese...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cartwright, E., Schow, D. Tags: CBPR: Methods Source Type: research
Community-Based Participatory Research Conceptual Model: Community Partner Consultation and Face Validity
A national community-based participatory research (CBPR) team developed a conceptual model of CBPR partnerships to understand the contribution of partnership processes to improved community capacity and health outcomes. With the model primarily developed through academic literature and expert consensus building, we sought community input to assess face validity and acceptability. Our research team conducted semi-structured focus groups with six partnerships nationwide. Participants validated and expanded on existing model constructs and identified new constructs based on "real-world" praxis, resulting in a revised model. F...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Belone, L., Lucero, J. E., Duran, B., Tafoya, G., Baker, E. A., Chan, D., Chang, C., Greene-Moton, E., Kelley, M. A., Wallerstein, N. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Perceptions of Empowerment Within and Across Partnerships in Community-Based Participatory Research: A Dyadic Interview Analysis
This article discusses implications of findings for CBPR. Evaluating partners’ perceived empowerment throughout a CBPR project might reveal areas to adjust, as not all projects with quantifiably successful outcomes involve processes that are successful in terms of empowerment. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Paradiso de Sayu, R., Chanmugam, A. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Photovoice in Kenya: Using a Community-Based Participatory Research Method to Identify Health Needs
Photovoice, a community-based participatory research method, was utilized to delineate the health-related needs of a small rural community in Kenya. Within the Cherangany Constituency, 13 women were recruited and trained in digital photography and appropriate ethical conduct in photography (respect for privacy, consent, and confidentiality). Both individual and group interviews were conducted with the participants, and data were transcribed and analyzed for common themes by both the participants and the researcher. Common themes present in the photos were coded and prioritized in order of importance: (a) school fees, (b) w...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kingery, F. P., Naanyu, V., Allen, W., Patel, P. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Transdisciplinary Research on Cancer-Healing Systems Between Biomedicine and the Maya of Guatemala: A Tool for Reciprocal Reflexivity in a Multi-Epistemological Setting
This article describes this intercultural cooperation and presents a method of reciprocal reflexivity (Bidirectional Emic–Etic tool) developed to overcome them. As a result of application, researchers observed successful knowledge integration at the epistemic level, the social-organizational level, and the communicative level throughout the study. This approach may prove beneficial to others engaged in facilitating participatory health research in complex intercultural settings. (Source: Qualitative Health Research)
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Berger-Gonzalez, M., Stauffacher, M., Zinsstag, J., Edwards, P., Krütli, P. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Worth the Risk? Muddled Relationships in Community-Based Participatory Research
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that has two purposes: (a) to generate knowledge about and (b) to take action to improve the lives of people facing health, social, economic, political, and environmental inequities. The foundation of all CBPR projects is its partnership—its cooperative relationship between community members, service providers, program planners, policy makers, and academics. It is with people—and through relationships—that partnerships are built and sustained. Although relationships between academics and community members are critical to cr...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mayan, M. J., Daum, C. H. Tags: CBPR: Pearls Pith & amp;amp; Provocation Source Type: research
Factors Affecting Indigenous West Australians Health Behavior: Indigenous Perspectives
The factors driving the disparity in health outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians include socio-economic factors, racism, and history. The current study focused on exploring Indigenous participants’ perspectives of the factors that affect the health behavior of their community members. Participatory action research methodology and a grounded theory approach were utilized. In total, 120 members of two urban West Australian Indigenous communities participated in focus group discussions. There was substantial similarity between the themes that emerged within the discussions held in the two communiti...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Waterworth, P., Dimmock, J., Pescud, M., Braham, R., Rosenberg, M. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Personas to Guide Understanding Traditions of Gay Men Living With HIV Who Smoke
This study explored perspectives of GMLWH during the design of a web-based SRC intervention. Participatory design techniques were used to guide the creation of personas that are composite representations of a person who would use the web-based SRC intervention. Researcher-participants (n = 13) created all data. Data analysis involved thematic coding drawing from an ethnographic perspective. Thematic analysis revealed seven intersecting themes related to SRC among participants, and an overarching theme navigating life. Concepts drawn from our ethnographic approach highlight cultural differences between GMLWH and mainstream ...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Phillips, J. C., Rowsell, D. J., Boomer, J., Kwon, J.-Y., Currie, L. M. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Creativity and Bipolar Disorder: Igniting a Dialogue
Bipolar disorder (BD) has been related to heightened creativity, yet core questions remain unaddressed about this association. We used qualitative methods to investigate how highly creative individuals with BD understand the role of symptoms and treatment in their creativity, and possible mechanisms underpinning this link. Twenty-two individuals self-identified as highly creative and living with BD took part in focus groups and completed quantitative measures of symptoms, quality of life (QoL), and creativity. Using thematic analysis, five themes emerged: the pros and cons of mania for creativity, benefits of altered think...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Johnson, S. L., Moezpoor, M., Murray, G., Hole, R., Barnes, S. J., CREST.BD, Michalak, E. E. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Beyond Adherence: Health Care Disparities and the Struggle to Get Screened for Colon Cancer
Dominant health care professional discourses on cancer take for granted high levels of individual responsibility in cancer prevention, especially in expectations about preventive screening. At the same time, adhering to screening guidelines can be difficult for lower income and under-insured individuals. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a prime example. Since the advent of CRC screening, disparities in CRC mortality have widened along lines of income, insurance, and race in the United States. We used a community-engaged research method, Photovoice, to examine how people from medically under-served areas experienced and gave mean...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hunleth, J. M., Steinmetz, E. K., McQueen, A., James, A. S. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
Health/Service Providers Perspectives on Barriers to Healthy Weight Gain and Physical Activity in Pregnant, Urban First Nations Women
The purpose of this article is to examine health/service providers’ perspectives of barriers to healthy weight gain and physical activity for urban, pregnant First Nations women in Ottawa, Canada. Through the use of semi-structured interviews, we explored 15 health/service providers’ perspectives on the complex barriers their clients face. By using a postcolonial feminist lens and a social determinants of health framework, we identified three social determinants of health that the health/service providers believed to have the greatest influence on their clients’ weight gain and physical activity during pr...
Source: Qualitative Health Research - December 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Darroch, F. E., Giles, A. R. Tags: CBPR: Articles Source Type: research
