Using Photovoice as a community diagnosis tool

本研究的目的是探讨Photovoice作为社区诊断的有效工具的应用。1）Photovoice在评估主题或目标社区特征之间的难度差异2）Photovoice作为社区诊断工具与其他方法结合使用的信度、效度和可用性。研究对象主要为小学生及其家长，资料收集方法：1）摄影与书写故事，（二）小组讨论使用photovoice。研究者作为外部促进者参与小组讨论。我们的研究设计被鹿儿岛伦理委员会判定为不适用作为行动研究的结果，本研究以影像声音的三阶段目标来评估影像声音的成效。A社区的参与者解决问题（第二步），而B社区的参与者持有共同的问题（第一步）。1）在学生的情况下，评估主题之间的差异被揭示出来，但在父母或成人的情况下没有。2）在4个社区举办了使用参与者照片语音的社区会议，社区会议的参与者是家庭班、老年人俱乐部和社区中心课程的成员，研究者的挡风玻璃调查结果与小组讨论的结果相似。因此，部分批准了表面有效性。Photovoice可能是社区诊断的有效工具。

The purpose of this study has been discussed the use of Photovoice as an effective tool for community diagnosis.1)Differences the degree of difficulty of Photovoice between assessment theme or target community characteristics2)Reliability, validity and availability as a tool of photovoice through using with another approaches 5 communities in P archipelago were selected, and target population were mainly schoolchildren and their parents.Data collection methods used 1)photograph with writing down stories, 2)group discussion using photovoice.The researcher as a outside facilitator pariticipated with group discussion.Our study design was judged inapplicable by the Ethical Board at Kagoshima University School of Medicine in 2004.As the results of action research,The effectiveness of photovoice was evaluated by the three steps goals of photovoice. Participants in A community tackle problems (second step), but participants in B hold problems in common (first step).1)The differences was revealed between assessment theme in the case of schoolchildren, but not in the case of parents or adults. The differences was revealed between communities for some unknown reason.2)Community meetings using participants' photovoice were held at 4 communities.Participants of community meetings are the members of family class, old people's club and course of community center.The results of Windshield Survey by the researcher was similar to the results of group discussion. Therefore face validity was partially approved. Photovoice may be an effective tool for community diagnosis.