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Enhancing lives through the development of a community‐based participatory action research programme
Author(s) -
KOCH TINA,
SELIM PAM,
KRALIK DEBBIE
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2002.00563.x
Subject(s) - participatory action research , citizen journalism , action research , action (physics) , nursing , construct (python library) , public relations , meaning (existential) , sociology , community based participatory research , health care , service (business) , psychology , medicine , engineering ethics , political science , business , engineering , pedagogy , psychotherapist , physics , quantum mechanics , anthropology , computer science , law , programming language , marketing
• A community‐based participatory action research (PAR) programme that has spanned 5 years is discussed in this article. A primary healthcare philosophy requires research in this practice setting and supports the way healthcare is ideally organized within an integrated team and supported by a community network that includes not only the healthcare workers and service providers but also the community as partners. • The principles driving three PAR inquiries are described: the development of a model for prevention of workplace violence; working with clinicians towards improving wound management practice; and management of continence for community‐dwelling women living with multiple sclerosis. • Participatory action research is a potentially democratic process that is equitable and liberating as participants construct meaning in the process of group discussions. • We conclude that the cyclical processes inherent in PAR promote reflection and reconstruction of experiences that can lead to the enhancement of people's lives, either at an individual or community level, or both.