scholarly journals Engaging New Parents in the Development of a Peer Nutrition Education Model Using Participatory Action Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Richard Ball ◽  
Kerith Duncanson ◽  
Lee Ashton ◽  
Andrew Bailey ◽  
Tracy L. Burrows ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Peer Education ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Child Feeding ◽  
Implementation Model

This study investigated the implementation model and research methods of a peer education program for new parents focused on infant feeding and nutrition. Two hundred and sixty-nine parents with an infant aged birth to two years old were invited to become co-researchers in a Participatory Action Research (PAR) study over three years. Data included focus group and online participant meeting transcripts, social media data, correspondence between the implementation team and peer educators, and field notes. All data were consolidated regularly and discussed by project participants and the research team. After each PAR cycle, structured content analysis was conducted, informing the next iteration of the implementation model and research methods. Participating parents were highly engaged in child feeding peer-to-peer education, but felt more effective and comfortable being considered as a child-feeding information resource sharer or ‘champion’ rather than a formal peer educator. Similarly, quantitative data collection was only effective when it was integrated seamlessly into the implementation model. PAR methodology suited the diversity and dynamic real-life study setting, facilitating substantial improvements to the peer nutrition intervention model and data collection methods. Our study demonstrated that a genuine collaboration between health professionals and participants to implement research in practice can achieve both intervention outcomes and research aims.

Participatory Action Research to Develop Nutrition Education Videos for Child Care Providers

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Schober ◽  
Ana Carolina Sella ◽  
Cristina Fernandez ◽  
Celia Ferrel ◽  
Amy L. Yaroch
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Hands On

Child care offers an ideal setting to promote more healthful eating through nutrition education. However, many child care providers lack knowledge about nutrition and receive infrequent nutrition training. Although web-based training shows promise as a way to address this, most current trainings focus on information provision rather than direct skills training that promotes hands-on, experiential learning. The present study describes the development of nutrition education videos using a participatory action research (PAR) approach that has been successful in generating research evidence to address community-based challenges. This approach involves four major phases: (1) external consumer influence, (2) consumer-empowered team, (3) the research process, and (4) provider-valued outcomes. A case report design is used to describe the development of six nutrition education videos for child care providers (e.g., teaching taste, texture, and color; teaching nutritional benefits; teaching portion size). One hundred and fourteen providers, parents, and public health professionals viewed the videos. Results showed that the vast majority found the videos to be helpful or very helpful for instructing adults to teach children about nutrition. The videos were made publically available on a website ( http://TeachKidsNutrition.org ), and as of 1 year of being posted, the website had more than 4,919 visitors across the United States and internationally. Lessons learned throughout this process are discussed. The development of these videos using PAR presents a promising approach to assure that child care providers receive hands-on, experiential learning in nutrition education. Furthermore, this approach may contribute to obesity prevention efforts among child care providers.

scholarly journals 4.B. Skills building seminar: Participatory action research: sharing power to improve public health research outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
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Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Caregiver Support

Abstract This skills building seminar addresses the use of Participatory Action Research (PAR) as strategy to involve professionals and practitioners from (non-academic) health organizations in public health research. These so-called stakeholders possess external -experiential practice-based- knowledge important for a successful realization of a public health research project. After a short introduction on the why and when of PAR as a suitable strategy in public health research, and the why and when in a project's life cycle stakeholders can or must join, levels of participatory practices will be discussed, as well as consequences of transfer of power from academic researchers to professionals and practitioners in the field. The first part of the seminar will be followed by two real life examples from two projects in Germany: 1) a psycho-oncological care project -hospital-based-, where alarm bells went off during the external prospective evaluation of the new care programme. In the development phase of this new programme,key stakeholders had not been involved yet; and 2) the optimization, by inserting PAR cycles, of a stroke family caregiver support programme before implementation in a public health care system. The audience is invited to discuss research dilemmas, as well as pros and cons of the PAR strategy Key messages Participatory action research is about active collaboration between academics and health professionals to bring transformative change through the process of taking action and doing research. Sharing power between academics and health professionals is vital to improve public health research.

scholarly journals MADRASAH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT THROUGH MADRASAH IBTIDAIYAH ACCREDITATION COMPANIN PROGRAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Muhamad Tisna Nugraha ◽  
Mansur Mansur ◽  
Agus Kusnayat
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Assistance Programs

Abstrak. Penelitian ini membahas tentang banyaknya Madarasah Ibtidaiyah di Kabupaten Kubu Raya yang belum terakreditasi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kegiatan perencanaan program pendampingan akreditasi Madrasah Ibtidaiyah di Kabupaten Kubu Raya, dan pelaksanaannya. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan Participatory Action Research (PAR) atau juga dikenal dengan penelitian aksi bersama. Instrument atau alat pengumpulan datanya adalah observasi, wawancara, dokumentasi dan lembar penilaian. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, maka dapat diketahui bahwa: 1) Kegiatan perencanaan progam pendampingan akreditasi madrasah dilakukan dengan workshop yang melibatkan Kepala Sekolah, Kemenag Kabupaten Kubu Raya dan prodi PGMI IAIN Pontianak. 2) Pelaksanaan program pendampingan madrasah ibtidaiyah di Kabupaten Kubu Raya dilakukan melalui 2 siklus kegiatan workshop dalam memahami 8 standar akreditasi. Abstract. This study discusses the number of Islamic elementary schools in Kubu Raya Regency that have not been accredited. This study aims to determine the planning activities of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah accreditation assistance programs in Kubu Raya Regency, and their implementation. The method used in this research is the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach or also known as joint action research. Instruments or data collection tools are observations, interviews, documentation and assessment sheets. Based on the results of the study, it can be seen that: 1) The planning activities of the madrasah accreditation mentoring program were carried out by workshops involving the Principal, the Ministry of Religion of Kubu Raya Regency and the PGMI IAIN Pontianak study program. 2) Implementation of the Madrasah Ibtidaiyah mentoring program in Kubu Raya Regency is carried out through 2 cycles of workshop activities in understanding 8 accreditation standards. 

scholarly journals Collaboration for Improving Social Work Practice: The Promise of Feminist Participatory Action Research

Affilia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 088610992095442
Author(s):  
Holly Johnson ◽  
Catherine Flynn
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Steering Committee ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Institutional Power

Feminist research and participatory action research (PAR) share the belief that research should directly serve social justice aims and work to alleviate suffering of marginalized and oppressed people. This article presents the results of a unique feminist PAR (FPAR) approach to designing and implementing an evaluation of an intervention with women who have used violence. The site of our analysis is the steering committee that oversaw this work and the extent to which members adhered to FPAR principles. Over the two decades since feminist critiques of PAR began to emerge, new discourses of collaboration have appeared. As researchers, we must be alert to FPAR discourses that mask ongoing hierarchies. Our findings suggest that, while reflexivity and genuine commitment to collaboration are fundamental to enacting FPAR principles, social workers nevertheless face real challenges confronting structural barriers that impede anti-oppression goals. This study highlights the challenges of adhering faithfully to feminist participatory principles in real-life settings and the need for future research to examine the effectiveness of FPAR processes in achieving authentic collaboration among committee members who are chosen to represent disparate perspectives and are backed by vastly different levels of social and institutional power.

scholarly journals Penerapan Cognitive Behaviour Therapy dalam Mengembangkan Kepribadian Remaja di Panti Asuhan

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Dewi Khurun Aini
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui proses dan respon pelaksanaan “Pendekatan Brainology dan Psikologi Positif (CBT)” dalam mengembangkan kepribadian remaja putri yang berada di panti asuhan Aisyiyah Ronggowarsito Semarang. Penelitian ini melibatkan 30 responden remaja putri Panti Asuhan Aisyiyah sebagai subjek penelitian. Metodologi penelitian pada kajian ini adalah participatory action research. Metodologi ini merupakan salah satu model penelitian yang mencari sesuatu untuk menghubungkan proses penelitian ke dalam proses perubahan sosial. Perubahan sosial yang dimaksud adalah bagaimana dalam proses pemberdayaan dapat mewujudkan tiga tolak ukur, yakni adanya komitmen bersama dengan masyarakat dan adanya institusi baru dalam masyarakat yang dibangun berdasarkan kebutuhan. Sementara, untuk hasil dalam penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan analisis data, data yang sudah terkumpul dibuat dalam matriks, analisisi ini disebut analisis interaktif. Dalam matriks akan disajikan penggalan-penggalan data deskriptif sekitar peristiwa atau pengalaman masyarakat tertentu. Tahapan-tahapan analisisnya berupa pengumpulan data (data collection), reduksi data (data reduction), penyajian data (data display), penarikan kesimpulan (conclutions). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan Program pengembangan kepribadian remaja putri yang berada di panti asuhan dengan pendekatan Cognitive Behaviour Therapy dapat meningkatkan kemampuan kognitif dan perilaku subjek penelitian. Subjek penelitian melakukan interaksi sosial dengan baik, sehingga subjek penelitian tetap menjaga hubungan atau kontak sosial, sehingga subjek penelitian merasa tidak sendiri. Kepribadian remaja putri panti semakin berkembang menjadi lebih baik.

scholarly journals Expand – Research in Norwegian science centers

1970 ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Dagny Stuedahl ◽  
Merethe Frøyland ◽  
Ingrid Eikeland
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Science Centers

The research program Expand – Research in Norwegian Science Centers, (UtVite in Norwegian) was initiated as a collaboration between Inspiria Science Center, and three research partners in science education.1 The project collaboration has as its main objective to understand the role of science centers for young people’s engagement, interest and recruitment to science. Further, the aim of Expand is to explore research methods suitable for participatory action research approaches to design-based studies of learning in science centers. This is a presentation of the research design of Expand in the first funding period 2011–2016. 

scholarly journals To Develop Health Education Tools for Nasogastric Tube Home Caring Through Participatory Action Research

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Fang-Suey Lin ◽  
Hong-Chun Shi
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Oral Teaching

Medical institutions provide guidance on caring skills for home caregivers. Oral teaching is combined with graphical tools in a method that has been proved to be an effective way of quickly mastering home caring skills and promotes effective learning for home caregivers. The graphic design and operation contents of this method are constantly revised through interviews and observations, and by carrying out home care application graphics it forms a spiral structure of Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) participatory action research (PAR). In the three cycles of the operation of PDSA PAR, the designers accurately create graphics of the caring details based on the nurses’ demonstrations and develop health education tools that are suitable to provide continuous assistance and services in real-life situations. PAR combined with PDSA, in each of the three cycles of the operation—design personnel, medical personnel and home caregiver personnel, respectively—as the lead roles, guide the planning decisions for PAR. This study is a reference for the improvement and development of medical graphics for health education tools to improve accuracy.

scholarly journals Incorporating Participatory Action Research in Attention Bias Modification Interventions for Addictive Disorders: Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvyn Zhang ◽  
Jiangbo Ying
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Cognitive Bias ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Cognitive Bias Modification ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Addictive Disorders ◽  
Bias Modification

Participatory action research was introduced in the 1960s and early 1970s, but it has only been more widely adopted in the recent years. Such methodologies have since been applied to several web & mobile-based interventions in psychiatry. To date no prior review has scoped the extent of the application of such methodologies for web & mobile-based interventions in psychiatry. In this article, a scoping literature review was performed, and seven articles have been identified. The most common methodologies are that of co-design workshops; and increasingly service users and participants are included in these workshops. There remains a lack of application of such methodologies for addiction research. Increasingly, attention and cognitive bias modification interventions are more commonplace, given that they have been found to be effective in modifying underlying biases amongst individuals with addictive disorders. Unfortunately, there remains to be inherent limitations with web and mobile versions of attention and cognitive bias modification interventions. Participatory design research methods could help address these limitations and future research involving the conceptualization of new attention or cognitive bias modification applications ought to consider the incorporation of these research methods.

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