A Men’s Survey: Exploring Well-Being, Healthy Relationships and Violence Prevention

The participation of men is critical to preventing domestic violence, however, there is still little understanding of the capacities and supports that men need for well-being and healthy relationships. A men’s survey was designed to explore and identify the capacities and resources required by a diverse population of Canadian men. Data was collected on-line and through trained community-based research assistants. Over 2,000 men from 20 ethno-cultural groups responded, and multiple challenges and enablers were identified. Responses from Indigenous and African Canadian men highlight the need for an intersectional lens in understanding men’s well-being and violence prevention.

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Higher Education, Community Engagement, and the Public Good: Building the Future of Continuing Education in Canada

Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education ◽

10.21225/d5bc7n ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Budd L. Hall

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Continuing Education ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Public Good ◽

Well Being ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

The Public ◽

University Engagement ◽

University Community

This article is about the potential for university-community engagement to serve the public good by transforming the health and well-being of our communities. It documents contemporary expressions of and renewed calls for community university engagement. It includes a detailed treatment of community based research, discussed in the overall context of community-university engagement. The article also explores some other important and growing dimensions of community university engagement, including the development of structures for the support of community-based research and community-service learning. It concludes with an argument that university-community engagement, while not the only current trend in higher education that affects our work in continuing education, is nonetheless a very important new development in which continuing education has much to offer and much to gain.

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Opportunities, Ethical Challenges, and Lessons Learned from Working with Peer Research Assistants in a Multi-Method HIV Community-Based Research Study in Ontario, Canada

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics ◽

10.1525/jer.2012.7.4.10 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 10-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Carmen Logie ◽

Llana James ◽

Wangari Tharao ◽

Mona R. Loutfy

Keyword(s):

Research Study ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Ethical Challenges ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Research Assistants

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Toward New Understandings of a Good Life for People Experiencing Impairment: An Art- and Community-Based Research Protocol

International Journal of Qualitative Methods ◽

10.1177/16094069211051941 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 160940692110519

Author(s):

Roanne Thomas ◽

Mary Egan ◽

Wendy Gifford ◽

Pamela Grassau ◽

Judy King ◽

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Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Good Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Individual Interview ◽

Community Based ◽

Media Arts ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Visual Research ◽

Visual Research Methods ◽

Rough Cut

Almost half of all Canadians live with sensory, cognitive, or physical impairment due to injury, illness, or ageing. Yet, research investigating the complex relationship between well-being and impairment is limited. Existing research has largely rendered invisible peoples’ experiences of a good life while living with impairment. In response, researchers are calling for interdisciplinary research that integrates new paradigms. Using innovative qualitative and visual research methods, our team will work with 24 women living with impairment as a result of cancer and/or its treatments to explore how creative practices can contribute to new understandings of a good life. Participants will be invited to complete mixed-media arts workshops during which they will create artwork representing their experiences of well-being while living with impairment. After the workshops, each participant will be asked to complete an individual interview about their experiences and their creative work. Next, a rough cut of a film will be produced from the workshop recordings and participants will be invited to provide feedback at a private screening. The research will culminate in a public screening of the film and an exhibit of participants’ work. Audience members (health professionals, students, participants, and the general public) will participate in a discussion following the screening and will be asked to complete a short survey about the event. This research will enhance public understandings of what it means to live well with impairment. In addition, the research will potentially impact health practices through querying dominant biomedical paradigms focused on curative approaches and distress.

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Community-Based Research to Enhance Holistic Well-being in School Contexts

Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods - Community-based Research with Vulnerable Populations ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-86402-6_5 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 105-119

Author(s):

Ansie Elizabeth Kitching ◽

Robert Tubb Carstens

Keyword(s):

Well Being ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

School Contexts

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The Happy, Healthy, Safe Relationships Continuum: Conceptualizing a Spectrum of Relationship Quality to Guide Community-Based Healthy Relationship Promotion Programming

The Family Journal ◽

10.1177/1066480720960416 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 106648072096041

Author(s):

Christine E. Murray ◽

Ratchneewan Ross ◽

Jennifer Cannon

Keyword(s):

Relationship Quality ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Community Based ◽

Healthy Relationships ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Diverse Communities ◽

Different Types ◽

Research Findings ◽

Definition Of ◽

New Research

In recent years, the promotion of healthy relationships at the community level has been widely and rapidly increased. However, the lack of a comprehensive definition of healthy relationships has resulted in potential difficulties in comparing community-based research findings, thus likely hindering the advancement of science and practice in this area. Defining healthy relationships is complex due to diverse personal and cultural backgrounds and types of relationships among individuals in diverse communities. In this article, a definition of healthy relationships and a new research-driven framework, the Happy, Healthy, Safe Relationships (HHSR) Continuum are presented. This HHSR Continuum is designed to be adaptable to different types of relationships, perspectives, and needs of subpopulations within communities. Although additional research is needed to further refine the HHSR Continuum, this framework potentially holds significant implications for theory and community-based practice in the promotion of healthy relationships.

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Happy Family Kitchen: A community-based research for enhancing family communication and well-being in Hong Kong.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/fam0000233 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 30 (6) ◽

pp. 752-762 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Henry C. Y. Ho ◽

Moses Mui ◽

Alice Wan ◽

Yin-lam Ng ◽

Sunita M. Stewart ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Family Communication ◽

Well Being ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Happy Family

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Community-Based screening and triage versus standard referral of Aboriginal children

International Journal of Indigenous Health ◽

10.32799/ijih.v13i1.30282 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 65-86

Author(s):

Nancy L. Young ◽

Mary Jo Wabano ◽

Diane Jacko ◽

Skye P. Barbic ◽

Katherine Boydell ◽

...

Keyword(s):

First Nations ◽

Research Design ◽

Emotional Health ◽

Clinical Sample ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Well Being ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Aboriginal Children

Health solutions for Aboriginal children should be guided by their community and grounded in evidence. This manuscript presents a prospective cohort study protocol, designed by a community-university collaborative research team. The study’s goal is to determine whether community-based screening and triage lead to earlier identification of children’s emotional health needs, and to improved emotional health 1 year later, compared to the standard referral process. We are recruiting a community-based sample and a clinical sample of children (ages 8 to 18 years) within one Canadian First Nation. All participants will complete the Aboriginal Children’s Health and Well-being Measure (ACHWM)© and a brief triage assessment with a local mental health worker. All participants will be followed for 1 year. Children with newly identified health concerns will be immediately connected to local services, generating a new opportunity to improve health. The development of the research design and its execution were impacted by several events (e.g., disparate worldviews, loss of access to schools). This manuscript describes lessons learned that are important to guide future community-based research with First Nations people. The optimal research design in an Aboriginal context is one that responds directly to local decision makers’ needs and respectfully integrates Aboriginal ways of knowing with Western scientific principles. Such an approach is critical because it will generate meaningful results that will be rapidly adopted, thus reducing the knowledge-to-action gap.

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Impacting Community Well-Being in Lafayette, Indiana, in the Midst of a Pandemic

Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement ◽

10.5703/1288284317422 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 128-136

Author(s):

Eli Coltin ◽

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Eric Flaningam ◽

Jace Newell ◽

Jason Ware

Keyword(s):

Service Learning ◽

Local Community ◽

Census Data ◽

Well Being ◽

Automated System ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Partners ◽

Community Based Research ◽

Home Mortgage Disclosure Act ◽

The City

For the past five years, Dr. Jason Ware has centered community-based research and service-learning courses around local community partners’ needs as they focused collectively on community well-being issues. The nature of their work has prioritized qualitative research methods such as narrative inquiry via in-depth interviews and ethnography via immersive observations within varying service-providing institutions such as the Hartford Hub and the Hanna Community Center. COVID-19 and the constant threat of its transmission meant that Dr. Ware, his students, and their community partners had to approach their work differently. They responded with a pivot. They turned to mining large publicly accessible and proprietary data sets, such as United States Census data, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data, the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data, and the Polk Directory data. The pivot served as a direct response to the City of Lafayette’s need for useful data that could inform decision-making related to neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing, and homelessness intervention. This different approach impacted the co-authors’ learning and scholarly development and provided the community partners with useful data. The co-authors experienced increased autonomy in pursuing data-specific questions, extracting data, analyzing, and visualizing it. One of the co-authors taught himself Python to import, statistically analyze, and visualize the data, and then presented the findings to the City of Lafayette. The co-author’s initial work — a pilot study — led to a scaled-up project that resulted in five significant outputs for three different community partners with a direct impact on six neighborhoods in the north end of Lafayette. Another co-author, who focused on scholarship during the pandemic, led an effort to develop a comprehensive literature review focused on the effect of community-based robotics programs on minority youth. The co-author also had presentations accepted at the local, national, and international levels while working on multiple publications. The third co-author is partnering with the other authors to create an automated system that will support the collection, extraction, and analysis of secondary data that will facilitate sustainable data analysis into the future.

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