Maman Suzanne, Lane Tim, Ntogwisangu Jacob, Modiba Precious, vanRooyen Heidi, Timbe Andrew, Visrutaratna Surasing, Fritz Katherine
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC, USA.
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Field methods. 2009 Nov;21(4):368-387. doi: 10.1177/1525822X09341718.
Participatory mapping and transect walks were used to inform the research and intervention design and to begin building community relations in preparation for Project Accept, a community-randomized trial sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). NIMH Project Accept is being conducted in five sites within four countries including Thailand, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Tanzania. Results from the mapping exercises informed decisions about the research design such as defining community boundaries, and identifying appropriate criteria for matching community pairs for the trial. The mapping also informed intervention related decisions such as where to situate the services. The participatory methods enabled each site to develop an understanding of the communities that could not have been derived from existing data or data collected through standard data collection techniques. Furthermore, the methods lay the foundation for collaborative community research partnerships.
参与式绘图和横断面走访被用于为研究和干预设计提供信息，并开始建立社区关系，为美国国立精神卫生研究所（NIMH）资助的社区随机试验“项目接受”做准备。NIMH的“项目接受”正在泰国、津巴布韦、南非和坦桑尼亚这四个国家的五个地点开展。绘图活动的结果为研究设计决策提供了依据，比如界定社区边界，以及确定试验中匹配社区对的合适标准。绘图还为干预相关决策提供了信息，比如服务地点的设置。参与式方法使每个地点都能深入了解社区情况，而这是无法从现有数据或通过标准数据收集技术收集的数据中获得的。此外，这些方法为社区合作研究伙伴关系奠定了基础。
