Empowerment of Promotoras as Promotora-Researchers in the Comidas Saludables & Gente Sana en las Colonias del Sur de Tejas (Healthy Food and Healthy People in South Texas Colonias) Program
Empowerment of Promotoras as Promotora-Researchers in the Comidas Saludables & Gente Sana en las Colonias del Sur de Tejas (Healthy Food and Healthy People in South Texas Colonias) Program
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DOI：
10.1007/s10935-013-0296-1
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发表时间：
2013-04-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Arandia, Gabriela
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作者：
St. John, Julie A.;Johnson, Cassandra M.;Arandia, Gabriela
Promotoras是经历社会和健康不平等的服务不足、面临风险的西班牙裔社区值得信赖的成员。作为推广人研究人员，推广人不仅有独特的能力和机会提供推广和教育，而且还积极参与社区研究，并作为社区和研究人员之间的文化桥梁。在这篇文章中，我们提出了一个案例研究的个人和集体赋权的六个promotora研究人员谁参加了七个社区为基础的参与式研究项目。数据来源包括与启动子研究人员的汇报访谈，在每次研究期间和之后完成的里程碑跟踪和文件，以及主要研究者和项目经理对启动子研究人员在这些研究中的作用的观察。我们对数据进行了定性分析，以确定在一系列项目中开发和实施的过程和决策，从而实现了促进者-研究人员的赋权。我们发现，积极参与授权发起人研究人员个人和集体在研究的各个阶段。共同的因素，有助于促进者研究人员的赋权是重视促进者研究人员的投入，使促进者研究人员获得和利用新的技能，并允许促进者研究人员作为研究人员和传统的促进者。这些因素共同使他们能够更充分地参与研究项目，同时使他们能够确定和解决自己社区的需求。
Promotoras are trusted members of underserved, at-risk Hispanic communities experiencing social and health inequities. As promotora-researchers, promotoras have the unique ability and opportunity not only to provide outreach and education but also to be actively engaged in conducting research in their communities and serve as a cultural bridge between the community and researchers. In this article, we present a case study of personal and collective empowerment of six promotora-researchers who participated in seven community-based participatory research projects. Data sources included debriefing interviews with the promotora-researchers, milestone tracking and documentation completed during and after each study, and observations by the principal investigator and project managers regarding the role of the promotora-researchers in these studies. We qualitatively analyzed the data to identify the processes and decisions that were developed and implemented in a series of projects, which resulted in promotora-researcher empowerment. We found that active engagement empowered promotora-researchers personally and collectively in all phases of the research study. Common elements that contributed to the empowerment of promotora-researchers were valuing promotora-researchers' input, enabling promotora-researchers to acquire and utilize new skills, and allowing promotora-researchers to serve as both researchers and traditional promotoras. Together, these elements enabled them to more fully participate in research projects, while allowing them to identify and address needs within their own communities.