Perspectives on Conducting Research in Indian Country
Perspectives on Conducting Research in Indian Country
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DOI：
10.1097/nnr.0000000000000379
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Moss, Margaret P.
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作者：
Jones, Emily J.;Haozous, Emily;Moss, Margaret P.
背景在土著背景下制定的某些研究原则是实践伦理的、相关的和敏感的调查的有益指南。必须根据结成伙伴关系的部落社区独特的地理、社会政治和文化属性，进一步调整研究方法。这些适应在很大程度上是通过试错来塑造的。目的为首次进入印度从事研究的护理新手提供经验教训。作为原住民和非原住民研究人员，我们不寻求制定一种方法，而是提供一份我们在教学、研讨会、临床、实践或任何其他学术环境中从未学到的过程、环境、时间表和障碍的清单。方法我们通过一系列半结构化的迭代会议组织了一套记忆和想法，这些会议专门针对我们作为研究人员在印度国家的第一次接触。我们汇编了对话中的书面答复和实地笔记，解释了这些数据，并将它们组织成主题。我们已经报道了我们认为最令人惊讶、最频繁或最重要的信息。结果我们在集体体验中确定了三个最主要的主题：定位和谈判，确定自己和工作的位置，以及导航我们的方式。副主题包括：将自己视为局外人，协商距离和时间现实，依靠守门人的善良，根据社区优先事项制定研究问题，磨练我们的跨文化和跨文化沟通技能，发现部落批准程序的多个层次，以及培养敏感性和直觉。讨论我们以前作为新手在印度国家领导研究项目的经历产生了独特的情感，这可能有助于指导寻求与部落社区合作的护理研究人员。
Background Certain research principles, framed within an indigenous context, are helpful guideposts to practice ethical, relevant, and sensitive inquiries. It is essential to further adapt research approaches based on the unique geographical, sociopolitical, and cultural attributes of partnering tribal communities. These adaptations are largely shaped by trial and error. Objectives The purpose of this article is to offer the prospective novice nurse researcher lessons that we learned when entering Indian country to conduct research for the first time. As indigenous and nonindigenous researchers, we are not seeking to set down a methodology but rather offer a list of processes, environments, timelines, and barriers that we never learned in didactic, seminar, clinical, practicum, or any other academic setting. Methods We organized a set of memories and thoughts through a series of semistructured iterative sessions specific to our first encounters as researchers in Indian country. We compiled our written responses and field notes from our dialogue, interpreted these data, and organized them into themes. We have reported what we felt would be the most surprising, frequent, or important information to note. Results We identified three overarching themes in our collective experience: orientation and negotiation, situating ourselves and our work, and navigating our way. Subthemes included perceiving ourselves as outsiders, negotiating distance and time realities, relying on the goodness of gatekeepers, shaping research questions per community priorities, honing our cross-cultural and intercultural communication skills, discovering the many layers of tribal approval processes, and developing sensibilities and intuition. Discussion Our previous experiences as novices leading research projects in Indian country have produced unique sensibilities that may serve to guide nurse researchers who seek to partner with tribal communities.