Facilitators of community participation in an Aboriginal sexual health promotion initiative
| Autor: | Peter Waples Crowe, Kylie Stephens, Alana Hulme Chambers, Alan Crouch, Pettina Love, Mary Whiteside, Jane Tomnay, Leonie McIntosh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Program evaluation
Male Emergency Medical Services Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice Health (social science) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander Victoria Cultural safety media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Promotion Trust Interviews as Topic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Promotion (rank) Humans Sociology Community Health Services Cultural Competency media_common Reproductive health 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Community Participation Public relations Project team Focus group Health promotion Female Sexual Health 0305 other medical science business Cultural competence Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Rural and remote health. 18(2) |
| ISSN: | 1445-6354 |
| Popis: | INTRODUCTION: Community participation is a collaborative process aimed at achieving community-identified outcomes. However, approaches to community participation within Aboriginal health promotion initiatives have been inconsistent and not well documented. Smart and Deadly was a community-led initiative to develop sexual health promotion resources with young Aboriginal people in regional Victoria, Australia. The principles of community-centred practice, authentic participatory processes and respect for the local cultural context guided the initiative. The aim of this article is to report factors that facilitated community participation undertaken in the Smart and Deadly initiative to inform future projects and provide further evidence in demonstrating the value of such approaches. METHODS: A summative evaluation of the Smart and Deadly initiative was undertaken approximately 2 years after the initiative ended. Five focus groups and 13 interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 32 participants who were involved with Smart and Deadly in one of the following ways: project participant, stakeholder or project partner, or project developer or designer. A deductive content analysis was undertaken and themes were compared to the YARN model, which was specifically created for planning and evaluating community participation strategies relating to Aboriginal sexual health promotion. RESULTS: A number of factors that facilitated community participation approaches used in Smart and Deadly were identified. The overarching theme was that trust was the foundation upon which the facilitators of community participation ensued. These facilitators were cultural safety and cultural literacy, community control, and legacy and sustainability. Whilst the YARN model was highly productive in identifying these facilitators of community participation, the model did not have provision for the element of trust between workers and community. Given the importance of trust between the project team and the Aboriginal community in the Smart and Deadly initiative, a suggested revision to the YARN model is that trust is included as the basis upon which YARN model factors are predicated. CONCLUSIONS: Adding trust to the YARN model as a basis upon which YARN model factors are grounded assists future Aboriginal health promotion projects in ensuring community participation approaches are more likely to be acceptable to the Aboriginal community. |
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