Decentering trust to connect with criminal legal system-involved women in research.
Decentering trust to connect with criminal legal system-involved women in research.
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去中心化信任以与涉及刑事法律系统的女性参与研究建立联系。
DOI:
10.1080/17538068.2023.2252278
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发表时间:
2023
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Ramaswamy,Megha
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作者:
Hemberg,Jordana;Wickliffe,Joi;Ramaswamy,Megha
As we craft this editorial, we have attempted multiple ways to describe the methods used to find and engage women with criminal legal system involvement (CLSI) who may choose to become research participants in our studies. Peers and colleagues often ask how we build trust with participants to support recruitment and retention of a study sample, especially when volunteering for a research study could potentially threaten CLSI participantsL freedom, given their legal precarity. In this piece, we will decenter the concept of trust and discuss how we connect with CLSI-women in the community using a participant-centered approach rooted in the principles of harm reduction. We remove the emphasis from building LtrustL with participants to instead, creating a safe environment where we proactively demonstrate that we are trustworthy. With humility and explicit acknowledgment of the privilege it is to do this work and know these women, we strive to consistently show-up with our best foot forward in service to study participants and science. We will close with introducing what is currently aspirational but hopefully attainable, a framework for equity-centered transformative research that shifts the power to historically marginalized communities and leverages research to achieve transformation and liberation. The concept of trust will no longer be central to discussions on how we conduct research once the power imbalance is eliminated and we stop conducting research on ‘vulnerable populations, L but instead act in service to communities empowering them to achieve social transformation through research.For nearly a decade, we have worked with CLSI-women exploring the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of incarcerated women around cervical cancer screening and prevention [1]; healthcare access, utilization, and health literacy [2]; and COVID-19 experiences [3], with retention rates ranging from 75%− 95% one, five, and even ten years after meeting participants. We understand that participants likely