Participatory approaches create opportunities for cooperation, building relationships, gaining knowledge, rethinking, and eventually changing power structures. From an international perspective, the article looks at the historical development of different participatory approaches in which building relationships and managing the balance of power between persons engaged in participatory research are central. The authors present and critically reflect on four research projects to show how they understood and implemented participatory research in different ways and what they have learned from their respective experiences. The “PaSuMi” project worked in the context of addiction prevention with migrants and provides a glimpse into different contexts of participatory research. The initiator of the study “Back into life—with a power wheelchair” works with post-stroke individuals who use the assistive device in community mobility and reflects on the shifting and intertwining roles of participants. In the research project “Workshops for implementation of expanded community nursing”, new professional roles for nurses in community nursing were developed; here limitations to participation and ways to deal with them are illustrated. Finally, the “DIPEx” project deals with challenges of enabling participation of persons with multiple sclerosis via narrative interviews on the experience of health and illness. All examples underline the necessity of a permanent reflection on relationships and power dynamics in participatory research processes.

The theory-practice-gap in nursing is a well-known phenomenon. However, to date there is only very little well-founded evidence in nursing research available on this topic, especially in the context of the FRG. Therefore, a qualitative nursing research project, oriented by the methods of Grounded Theory, on theory transfer into practice using the example of a continuing in-service education program on kinesthetics in nursing was carried out that aimed at examining factors that influence the implementation of kinesthetics into nursing practice. After the program, the researcher conducted mainly semi-structured interviews with the participants about their experiences with using what they had learned in their daily work on the ward. As part of the results, the impact of the category "attributes of kinesthetics" on the theory-practice-transfer of the participants in the continuing education program on the topic will be shown. That is to say something about whether the fact that kinesthetics is perceived as practical, strange and exotic, connected with closeness, or as difficult or risky, has an influence on the use of newly learned knowledge in practice. Finally, the relation of this category to the key-category "working in knowledge and new things" will be shown. The findings of this study suggest that putting emphasis on transfer of knowledge alone is not sufficient to account for the complex structure of the process of theory-practice-transfer.

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Was unterscheidet lesbische Elternpaare von heterosexuellen? Welche Ängste, Wünsche und Bedürfnisse haben Familien mit zwei Müttern? Wie wurde das Arbeitsbündnis mit Hebammen erlebt? Im Fokus dieser Forschungsarbeit stehen die Erfahrungen lesbischer Paare mit der Hebammenbetreuung in Deutschland. Gezeigt wird, wie bunt Familie und damit der Hebammenalltag sein kann und wie Diversität in der Hebammenarbeit achtsam gelebt werden kann.

Operative treatment of femur fractures in 20 polytraumatized children had worse after-results than conservative treatment in 14 comparable fractures except for the CCD angle. The indication for operative treatment should be made very cautiously, also in polytraumatized children. The indications are listed. The most frequency indication for operative treatment after polytrauma was long-lasting severe motor agitation due to cerebral contusion.