J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2021;32(4):1844-1871. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2021.0170.
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.
韧性需要利用资源来应对逆境;几乎没有什么措施可以用来探索儿童在不同文化背景下如何应对逆境。
我们旨在通过(1)共同设计方法来吸引不同的家庭,以及(2)确定韧性因素,来开发一个具有社会包容性的儿童韧性衡量标准。
我们采用基于社区的参与式研究(CBPR)方法招募了原住民家庭、难民家庭和医院门诊诊所的家庭。为了对研究结果进行三角验证和共同设计方法,我们与 21 名服务提供者举行了讨论小组。在与 97 名家长和 106 名(5-12 岁)儿童进行的讨论小组中,采用了共同设计的基于小组的视觉方法。
参与者确定了具有文化意义的韧性因素,例如充满爱意的家庭、讲母语(对于非英语背景的家庭)。我们讨论了不同参与者群体之间的差异和共同点。
共同设计严谨且包容性强的研究对于从不同家庭中收集具有文化意义的数据至关重要。