Community participation and engagement in health-promotion research
Domain
Society
Qualitative/Quantitative
Quantitative & qualitative
Primary/Secondary data
Primary and Secondary data
Source of data
Primary: Participants
Secondary: Publicly available data sources e.g. project deliverables and publications; Online repositories (e.g. Science Direct, Google Scholar, etc.)
Time series
No
Unit of measurement (observation)
Context, process, outcomes
Unit of analysis
Project
Analytical level (logic model)
Outcome, impact
Links with indicators in other domains
Governance
Data collection method(s)
Participant surveys, structured interviews with key informants in the community coalitions, event and activities logs, focus groups, observations of meetings, review of existing documents. Literature search
Data collection item(s)
Who participates and why?
What are the benefits and challenges of community participation?
What qualitative and quantitative methods are used in process evaluations to measure community participation?
What measures are used to help define the influence of community participation in community-based interventions?
Indicator building
Diversity of participants/organizations
Recruitment/retention of new members
Role in the initiative or its activities
# and type of events attended
Amount of time spent in and outside of initiative activities
Benefits and challenges of participation
Satisfaction with the work or process of participation
Balance of power and leadership.)
Availability of data
Low
Feasibility
Resource demanding
Comments/caveats
The concepts used for the indicator building are too complex to derive data collection items