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Community‐based participatory research and the challenges of qualitative analysis enacted by lay, nurse, and academic researchers
Author(s) -
Foster Jennifer W.,
Chiang Fidela,
Burgos Rosa I.,
Cáceres Ramona E.,
Tejada Carmen M.,
Almonte Asela T.,
Noboa Frank R.M.,
Perez Lidia J.,
Urbaez Marilín F.,
Heath Annemarie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
research in nursing and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.836
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1098-240X
pISSN - 0160-6891
DOI - 10.1002/nur.21494
Subject(s) - participatory action research , community based participatory research , qualitative research , experiential learning , citizen journalism , health care , medical education , nursing , sociology , psychology , medicine , pedagogy , political science , social science , anthropology , law
There are multiple challenges in adhering to the principles of community‐based participatory research (CBPR), especially when there is a wide range of academic preparation within the research team. This is particularly evident in the analysis phase of qualitative research. We describe the process of conducting qualitative analysis of data on community perceptions of public maternity care in the Dominican Republic, in a cross‐cultural, CBPR study. Analysis advanced through a process of experiential and conversational learning. Community involvement in analysis provided lay researchers an imperative for improvements in maternity care, nurses a new perspective about humanized care, and academic researchers a deeper understanding of how to create the conditions to enable conversational learning. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 35:550–559, 2012