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Organizational Participatory Research in North America

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This chapter focuses on North American (NA) participatory health research (PHR), particularly with organizations. We begin by presenting the definition of PHR put forth by NA leaders in 1995 and, then, sketching the contributions of those who have led the field since, developing, promoting, and advocating for PHR in Canada and the United States. We then define PHR with health organizations, that is, organizational participatory research (OPR). The remainder of the chapter focuses on the results of a qualitative analysis of the 16 North American examples we identified in a previous systematic review of OPR, as well as on our own work. We use the sequence of a research study, from developing relationships with research partners to determining the focus of the study, analyzing the data, and examining the results, to illustrate how OPR has been conducted in North America. Subsequently, we describe the changes in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors that have been linked to these processes. We conclude with a discussion on challenges of OPR that North Americans have faced and how they have dealt with them.

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    Paula Louise Bush, Jeannie Haggerty, Carol Repchinsky, Vera Granikov, Ann C. Macaulay, Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant & Pierre Pluye

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