Using Participatory Methods to Engage Diverse Families in Research about Resilience in Middle Childhood

Resilience entails drawing on resources to navigate adversity; few measures exist to explore how children cope with adversity in varying cultural contexts. We aimed to develop a socially-inclusive measure of child resilience by (1) co-designing methods to engage diverse families, and (2) identifying...

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Published in:Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2021-11, Vol.32 (4), p.1844-1871
Main Authors: Gartland, Deirdre, Riggs, Elisha, Giallo, Rebecca, Glover, Karen, Casey, Sue, Muyeen, Sumaiya, Weetra, Donna, White, Selena, Koolmatrie, Tanya, Brown, Stephanie J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adversity
Child
Childhood
Children
Children & youth
Co-design
Community based action research
Community involvement
Community participation
Community-Based Participatory Research
Cultural factors
Culture
Discussion groups
Families & family life
Humans
Indigenous peoples
Mental health
Minority & ethnic groups
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Native peoples
Native women
Non-English speakers
Outpatient clinics
Parents
Participatory research
Population
Refugees
Research methodology
Resilience
Social support
Trauma
Violence
Working groups
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Summary:Resilience entails drawing on resources to navigate adversity; few measures exist to explore how children cope with adversity in varying cultural contexts. We aimed to develop a socially-inclusive measure of child resilience by (1) co-designing methods to engage diverse families, and (2) identifying resilience factors. We used a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to recruit Aboriginal families, refugee families, and families from hospital outpatient clinics. To triangulate findings and codesign methods, we held discussion groups with 21 service providers. Codesigned group-based visual methods were employed in discussion groups with 97 parents and 106 children (5-12 years). Participants identified culturally-meaningful resilience factors such as loving family, speaking their home language (for families of Non-English speaking backgrounds). We discuss differences and commonalities across participant groups. Co-designing research that is both rigorous and inclusive is critical for gleaning culturally-meaningful data from diverse families.
ISSN:1049-2089
1548-6869
1548-6869
DOI:10.1353/hpu.2021.0170