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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

"What Do You Need? What Are You Experiencing?" Relationship Building and Power Dynamics in Participatory Research Projects: Critical Self-Reflections of Researchers.

Doris Arnold, Andrea Glässel, Tabea Böttger, Navina Sarma, Andreas Bethmann, Petra Narimani

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Doris ArnoldDepartment of Social Work and Health Care, Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, 67059 Ludwigshafen, Germany.
Andrea GlässelInstitute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-9199-3604
Tabea BöttgerInstitute of Health Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
Navina SarmaDepartment of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Andreas BethmannCentre for International Health Protection (ZIG), Robert Koch Institute, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Petra NarimaniProtestant University of Applied Sciences Berlin (EHB), 14167 Berlin, Germany.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Participatory approaches create opportunities for cooperation, building relationships, gaining knowledge, rethinking, and eventually changing power structures. From an international perspective, the article looks at the historical development of different participatory approaches in which building relationships and managing the balance of power between persons engaged in participatory research are central. The authors present and critically reflect on four research projects to show how they understood and implemented participatory research in different ways and what they have learned from their respective experiences. The "PaSuMi" project worked in the context of addiction prevention with migrants and provides a glimpse into different contexts of participatory research. The initiator of the study "Back into life-with a power wheelchair" works with post-stroke individuals who use the assistive device in community mobility and reflects on the shifting and intertwining roles of participants. In the research project "Workshops for implementation of expanded community nursing", new professional roles for nurses in community nursing were developed; here limitations to participation and ways to deal with them are illustrated. Finally, the "DIPEx" project deals with challenges of enabling participation of persons with multiple sclerosis via narrative interviews on the experience of health and illness. All examples underline the necessity of a permanent reflection on relationships and power dynamics in participatory research processes.

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Community-Based Participatory ResearchResearch PersonnelHumansKnowledgeResearch DesignDIPExerror culturehealthparticipationparticipatory researchpowerreflectionresearch relationshipsunderstanding of roles in research

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PMID35954692
PMCPMC9368275

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