Reininger Belinda, Martin David W, Ross Michael, Sinicrope Pamela Smith, Dinh-Zarr Tho
The Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, SC, USA.
Int Q Community Health Educ. 2005;25(3):211-38. doi: 10.2190/8588-68K4-07M3-7164.
Grounded Theory, a qualitative research method, was used to fully describe the construct of empowerment and its measurement in racially and ethnically diverse urban and rural neighborhoods. Forty-nine grass roots experts, primarily from six communities in Texas, participated via semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Observational data were also collected. Results revealed that the framework of collective empowerment has two main dimensions: ten processes necessary for developing greater empowerment and eight long-term outcomes that result from the process strategies. The two main dimensions of collective empowerment are cyclically, rather than linearly, related. While the results are unique to the communities studied because of the nature of the analysis, the process by which they were elucidated can be replicated in any setting. These findings suggest that the construct of collective empowerment can be both operationalized and evaluated at the community level.
扎根理论是一种定性研究方法，用于全面描述在种族和民族多样化的城乡社区中赋权的构建及其衡量标准。四十九位基层专家主要来自得克萨斯州的六个社区，通过半结构化访谈和焦点小组参与研究。还收集了观察数据。结果显示，集体赋权框架有两个主要维度：增强赋权所需的十个过程和由过程策略产生的八个长期结果。集体赋权的两个主要维度是循环相关的，而非线性相关。由于分析的性质，这些结果是所研究社区独有的，但得出这些结果的过程可以在任何环境中复制。这些发现表明，集体赋权的构建可以在社区层面进行操作化和评估。
