Experiences in Broker-Facilitated Participatory Cross-Cultural Research: Overcoming Practical and Ethical Challenges

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

Stephanie P.Kowal¹ 

关键词: knowledge construction;    qualitative analysis;    research relationships;    collaborative research;    cross-cultural research;    qualitative research;    informed consent;    interviews;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406917706883

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Health researchers are increasingly using community-based participatory research approaches because of the benefits accrued through ongoing community engagement. The documentation of our research partnership highlights key ethical and analytical challenges researchers face in participatory research, particularly in projects partnering with service providers or cultural brokers in cross-cultural settings. In this article, we describe how choices made to accommodate a participatory research approach in the examination of vaccination behavior impacted the process and outcomes of our qualitative inquiries. First, we found that employing multiple interviewers influenced the breadth of discussion topics, thus reducing the ability to achieve saturation in small study populations. This was mitigated by (a) having two people at each interview and (b) using convergent interviewing, a technique in which multiple interviewers discuss and include concepts raised in interviews in subsequent interviews to test the valid...

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC