Investing in lay researchers for community-based health action research: implications for research, policy and practice.
Investing in lay researchers for community-based health action research: implications for research, policy and practice.
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DOI：
10.1080/09581590802225712
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Cropper, S.
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作者：
Carlisle, S.;Cropper, S.
人们越来越多地呼吁社区更多地参与与健康相关的研究，而且似乎也受到了关注——尽管程度不同。我们在这里从外部评估者的角度报告两个基于社区的健康行动研究项目的领导者通过雇用少数当地人作为自己社区内的非专业行动研究人员来进一步加强这种参与的实际努力。在这种背景下，“行动研究”被认为是一种方法，通过这种方法，基于学术界、社区和公共部门组织之间的伙伴关系的相对较小的项目可以解决当地的健康和福祉问题。本文的目的是检查项目负责人对非专业行动研究角色的初步假设和期望，并将其与这些研究人员的实际经验进行比较。在此基础上，我们考虑了非专业行动研究对于社区健康发展的作用对组织和社区的价值，并指出了这些个人可能面临的一些意外风险。最后，我们强调了对该领域未来政策和实践的影响。
Calls for greater community participation health-related research are increasingly made and, it seems, heeded-albeit to varying degrees. We report here, from the perspective of external evaluators, on practical efforts by the leaders of two community-based health action research projects to enhance such participation still further by employing a small number of local people as lay action researchers within their own community. 'Action research' in this context was conceived as an approach by which comparatively small projects, based on partnerships between academics, communities and public sector organisations, could address local issues of health and well-being. The purpose of the paper is to examine project leaders' initial assumptions and expectations of the lay action research role and to compare these with the actual experience of those researchers. On this basis we consider the value to organisations and communities of the lay action research role for community health development and point out some of the unanticipated risks such individuals may face. We conclude by highlighting implications for future policy and practice in this area.