Towards a Theory of Change for Community-based Research Projects

Janzen, Rich; Ochocka, Joanna; Stobbe, Alethea

doi:10.15402/esj.v2i2.165

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“…Second, although many programme theories articulate intended changes [98], engage with the complexity of interventions and provide a framework to guide action, monitoring and evaluation [99], there is little empirical evidence of how theories can be applied in practice [100][101][102]. Hence, there have been calls for PAR in theory-based implementation and evaluations [103][104][105].…”

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“…To the best of our knowledge, no one has yet offered a description of how to combine ToC and PAR to apply service-user involvement in mental health systems. We attempted to address this gap by taking cues from the evidence base on combining ToC and PAR from other disciplines (e.g., agriculture [100,108], education [102], development studies [109], programme evaluation [110,111] and implementation sciences [112].…”

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Participatory action research to pilot a model of mental health service user involvement in an Ethiopian rural primary healthcare setting: study protocol

2020

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Background: Involvement of service-users at all levels of the mental health system is a policy imperative in many countries internationally. However, putting policy into practice seems complex; little is known about how best to involve service users and efforts are often criticized for being tokenistic. In low-and-middle income countries, less attention has been given to the roles of service users within mental health systems. The proposed study is part of a larger project intended to develop service-user involvement in mental health system strengthening in Ethiopia. A Theory of Change (ToC) model has already been developed through a participatory approach. This study protocol aims to describe the theoretical background and methods to pilot this model using participatory action research (PAR) and explore participants' experience of involvement. Methods: The proposed study will apply a PAR approach situated in critical social theory and conduct a phenomenological case study to find out participants' experience of involvement. This will be conducted in three stages. The focus of Stage 1 will be to(i) establish a Research Advisory Group (RAG), and Research Participant Group (RPG) at district and primary healthcare facility levels, respectively, and (ii) identify and prioritize potential areas of concern for involvement in the domains of advocacy, service planning and development, monitoring and improving service quality. In Stage 2, we will work with the RPG to develop a plan of action for the selected area. Stage 3 will aim to assist the RPG to implement and evaluate the plan of action. Process indicators and observation will be combined with in-depth interviews with participants to elicit their experiences of involvement. Thematic content analysis will be used. Discussion: The participatory approach to mental health service user involvement in health system strengthening employed by this study will support the implementation of solutions through locally relevant and contextualized actions. Findings from this study will contribute to the body of knowledge towards understanding the complexity of implementation of service user involvement and refine the ToC model for transferability to similar settings.

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Participatory action research to pilot a model of mental health service user involvement in an Ethiopian rural primary healthcare setting: study protocol

2020

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“…Furco (2010), using examples from the UK, also proposes a framework highlighting overlaps between the teaching, research, and service activities of "the engaged campus." Also, Janzen et al (2017) use a program theory of change model to identify the activities, outcomes, and indicators that can be used to plan, carry out, and evaluate community-based research projects. These typologies provide insight into the diversity of CES activities, and the arrangements through which CES can be facilitated.…”

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“…We describe this step as being indiscrete in the sense that it both preceded and underpinned the other steps in this stage. reciprocal learning and benefit (Beaulieu et al 2018;Da Cruz 2018;Janzen et al 2017). In other words, we continuously tried to understand the ways in which our past partnerships had or had not achieved their desired outcomes, and the reasons for these shortcomings or successes.…”

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Towards a Framework for Building Community-University Resilience Research Agendas

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In this paper, we ask: "How can we scope multiyear, multiscalar community-university collaborations that draw on the university's diverse resources and contribute to community resilience"? We approach this question by presenting the development and application of the Advancing Collaborative Transdisciplinary Scholarship Framework (the "ACTS Framework") which we argue has been successful at helping us better understand, foster, and work towards communities' resilience. The ACTS Framework, informed by our collective expertise in critical community-engaged scholarship (CES) and community resilience, contributes to knowledge and practice in critical CES, in particular by providing guidance for scoping and sustaining complex community-university collaborations. The structured yet iterative process involved in the framework development and application affirms and extends the work of other scholars interested in the links between CES and community resilience. Our contributions offer two other important practices-centring community concerns and facilitating cross-project collaboration-to critical CES knowledge and practice and highlight two promising practices of linking structures that facilitate community-university collaborations-specifically, a well-organized institutional memory and holding and bridging relationships.

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“…There are compelling reasons for why this shift is occurring, reasons which we have reviewed in more detail elsewhere (see Brown et al, 2015;Ochocka & Janzen, 2014;Janzen, Ochocka & Stobbe, 2016). These reasons include the practical advantage of recognizing community members as knowledge-rich partners who offer their experiential and practical knowledge, in complement to theoretical knowledge held by outside experts, which serves to maximise research utilization (Heron & Reason, 1997;Small & Uttal, 2005;Wallerstein & Duran, 2003).…”

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Community-Based Research and the Faith-Based Campus

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Over recent decades a significant shift has been taking hold on campuses of higher education in Canada and around the world. It is a shift towards community engagement. In this article our focus is on the research aspect of community engagement, and explores how this shift towards community-based research is playing itself out on the faith-based campus. We provide examples of two Canadian faith-based universities (Crandall University and Tyndale University College & Seminary) who were involved in a two-year community-campus research partnership called "The role of churches in immigrant settlement and integration". Reflecting on this experience we learned that, similar to other institutions of higher education, an intentional shift towards communitybased research on the faith-based campus requires attention to both the internal and external drivers that support such a shift. We also learned that faith-based campuses have their own unique ethos and therefore have distinctive drivers that can be leveraged to support such a shift. While our learnings arise out of the experience of two participating universities, their applicability may be of interest to other faith-based campuses in Canada and elsewhere.

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Towards a Theory of Change for Community-based Research Projects

Cited by 24 publications

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Participatory action research to pilot a model of mental health service user involvement in an Ethiopian rural primary healthcare setting: study protocol

Participatory action research to pilot a model of mental health service user involvement in an Ethiopian rural primary healthcare setting: study protocol

Towards a Framework for Building Community-University Resilience Research Agendas

Community-Based Research and the Faith-Based Campus

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