Westacott Genevieve, McCreanor Victoria, Cramb Susanna, Manzanero Silvia, Vuong Kim, Allen Michelle, Dias Shannon, Binge Geoffrey, Das Arpita
Jamieson Trauma Institute, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Metro North Health, L13, Block 7, Herston, Brisbane, QLD, 4029, Australia.
Hunter Medical Research Institute, Newcastle, Australia.
Inj Epidemiol. 2025 Jan 7;12(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s40621-024-00556-8.
Injury causes significant burden on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. However, a considerable portion of the research conducted in this area has been carried out by Western researchers. It has been acknowledged that historical research methodologies and discourses around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research may not be suitable or beneficial. Co-production methodologies offer opportunities for research to be developed collaboratively ensuring meaningfulness of results and appropriate protection for participants. A scoping review was undertaken to investigate the use of co-production methodologies in research within the unintentional injuries space for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over time.
A systematic search was conducted using PubMed, ProQuest, Embase and Indigenous Health Infonet databases. Study characteristics, remoteness, injury topic, co-production methods and elements were extracted from eligible studies. The search revealed 4175 papers, from which 39 studies were included in this scoping review. It was found that 69% of studies were fully co-produced with community. Studies predominately focused on general injury, falls prevention or brain injury rehabilitation. The most heavily utilised co-production strategy was the inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers into the writing and research team. This helped the collection of culturally safe data and appropriate interpretation of results.
There is growing diversity among co-production methodologies, better enabling meaningful engagement between community and research. This co-production helps decolonise the research process to privilege Aboriginal voices, however, more work is needed to appropriately capture Indigenous perspectives.
伤害给澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民社区带来了沉重负担。然而，该领域的相当一部分研究是由西方研究人员进行的。人们已经认识到，围绕原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民研究的历史研究方法和论述可能并不合适或有益。合作生产方法为合作开展研究提供了机会，确保了研究结果的意义以及对参与者的适当保护。随着时间的推移，我们进行了一项范围审查，以调查合作生产方法在澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民社区意外伤害领域研究中的应用情况。
我们使用PubMed、ProQuest、Embase和原住民健康信息网数据库进行了系统检索。从符合条件的研究中提取了研究特征、偏远程度、伤害主题、合作生产方法和要素。检索共得到4175篇论文，其中39项研究被纳入本次范围审查。结果发现，69%的研究是与社区完全合作开展的。研究主要集中在一般伤害、预防跌倒或脑损伤康复方面。使用最频繁的合作生产策略是将原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民研究人员纳入写作和研究团队。这有助于收集符合文化安全的数据并对结果进行恰当解读。
合作生产方法的多样性日益增加，更有利于社区与研究之间进行有意义的互动。这种合作生产有助于使研究过程非殖民化，以突出原住民的声音，然而，还需要开展更多工作来恰当地捕捉原住民的观点。
