Using Community-Based Participatory Mixed Methods Research to Understand Preconception Health in African American Communities of Arizona

Transformative sequential mixed methods design in a cross-cultural context is seldom straightforward. Using a community-based participatory research approach as the transformative lens in an African refugee context in the southern United Status, we explored: (a) the intersection of culture, financial stress, and financial self-efficacy and (b) tested the efficacy of financial literacy as the focus of a culturally responsive solution grounded in community-identified priorities. Through a three-phased explanatory sequential mixed methods design, we demonstrate how the addition of a third phase of analysis that focuses on convergence and expansion of quantitative and qualitative data integration and cyclical processes of dissemination and action can strengthen the utility of transformative mixed methods research in a cross-cultural context. Our study offers a unique contribution to the long-standing methodological dialogue between the design elements of mixed methods research, community-based participatory research, and migration studies by expanding the transformative explanatory sequential design archetype in a cross-cultural context.

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Findings from a Community-based Participatory Prevention Research Intervention Designed to Increase Social Capital in Latino and African American Communities

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health ◽

10.1007/s10903-007-9078-2 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 281-289 ◽

Cited By ~ 51

Author(s):

Yvonne L. Michael ◽

Stephanie A. Farquhar ◽

Noelle Wiggins ◽

Mandy K. Green

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

African American ◽

Prevention Research ◽

Community Based ◽

African American Communities

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Adapting a community-based ART delivery model to the patients’ needs: a mixed methods research in Tete, Mozambique

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/1471-2458-14-364 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Freya Rasschaert ◽

Tom Decroo ◽

Daniel Remartinez ◽

Barbara Telfer ◽

Faustino Lessitala ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Community Based ◽

Delivery Model ◽

Community Based Art ◽

Art Delivery

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Discontented and Jack of all trades: Revisiting male survival sex workers through modern sex work lenses

Sexualities ◽

10.1177/13634607211026465 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 136346072110264

Author(s):

Elizabeth Trudeau

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Mixed Methods ◽

Sex Work ◽

Sex Workers ◽

African American Male ◽

Community Based ◽

Social Actors ◽

Survival Sex ◽

Nuanced Understanding

Researchers have been moving toward understanding sex workers as agentic and career-based social actors for some time. However, while these modern sex work lenses are readily applied to a variety of high-end and emerging forms of sex work, the field has often been reluctant to frame impoverished and potentially exploitative sex work in the same manner. Here, I ask whether and how the frameworks of “agency” and “career” can be applied to a population of poor male-identified survival sex workers. I use data from an innovative mixed-methods community-based approach that yields a broad sample of majority African American male survival sex workers from a large US city. I argue that by privileging respondents’ own interpretation of their lives, it is possible to construct a nuanced understanding of sex work as a “career” and to conceive of their work as both a profession and a source of disadvantage. I conclude that we should continue to focus on the voices of sex workers themselves in defining what sex work means and how it affects their lives.

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