Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
Biomed Res Int. 2018 Jun 11;2018:5621609. doi: 10.1155/2018/5621609. eCollection 2018.
This paper presents a case study of Beyond Bushfires, a large, multisite, mixed method study of the psychosocial impacts of major bushfires in Victoria, Australia. A participatory approach was employed throughout the study which was led by a team of academic investigators in partnership with service providers and government representatives and used on-site visits and multiple methods of communication with communities across the state to inform decision-making throughout the study. The ethics and impacts of conducting and adapting the approach within a post-disaster context will be discussed in reference to theories and models of participatory health research. The challenges of balancing local interests with state-wide implications will also be explored in the description of the methods of engagement and the study processes and outcomes. Beyond Bushfires demonstrates the feasibility of incorporating participatory methods in large, post-disaster research studies and achieving rigorous findings and multilevel impacts, while recognising the potential for some of the empowering aspects of the participatory experience to be reduced by the scaled-up approach.
本文介绍了一个案例研究，即 Beyond Bushfires，这是一项针对澳大利亚维多利亚州重大森林大火对心理社会影响的大型、多地点、混合方法研究。该研究采用了参与式方法，由一个学术研究团队与服务提供商和政府代表合作领导，并通过现场访问和与全州各地社区的多种沟通方式，在整个研究过程中为决策提供信息。本文将参考参与式健康研究的理论和模型，讨论在灾后背景下开展和调整该方法的伦理和影响。本文还将在参与方式和研究过程及结果的描述中探讨平衡地方利益和全州影响的挑战。Beyond Bushfires 证明了在大型灾后研究中纳入参与式方法并取得严格结果和多层次影响的可行性，同时认识到参与式体验的一些赋权方面可能会因规模化方法而减弱。
