Maintaining and improving mouth care for care home residents: A participatory research project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alys Wyn Griffiths ◽  
Reena Devi ◽  
Biddy Cheetham ◽  
Lisa Heaton ◽  
Angela Randle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mouth Care

The music matrix: A qualitative participatory action research project to develop documentation for care home music therapy services

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-85
Author(s):  
Stuart Wood ◽  
Fiona Crow
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Music Therapy ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Care Home ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Client Participation ◽  
National Team

This article presents a small Participatory Action Research project involving music therapists working in a care home company, creating a documentation tool (The Music Matrix) that is fit for purpose. The project emerged out of a commonly held dissatisfaction with existing documentation among the Music Therapists in the care home company’s national team. The Music Matrix tool uses graphic notation to record observations of client participation, systematised into 10 dimensions of activity. The tool was developed in a cycle of practice and reflection between members of the music therapy team and stakeholders in the wider organisation. This was systematised in a three-stage trial process of profiling, peer review and thematic synthesis of feedback. Findings suggest that the tool was viewed to be useful in a number of aspects. First, it enabled insights for Music Therapists, in seeing patterns and recognising unacknowledged habits in their own practice. It helped show complex experience in an immediate graphic way. This was useful for reporting to stakeholders and was flexible in applying to numerous formats of practice. However, this flexibility also created a level of uncertainty for some research respondents, as the tool’s wide applicability does not have the appearance of objectivity afforded by other methods. Stakeholders saw applications beyond music therapy, particularly for non-musical care work and activities. Insights emerged regarding how Music Therapists can usefully meet the many demands that care documentation serves.

Developing Evidence-Based Age-Friendly Policies: A Participatory Research Project

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesbeth De Donder ◽  
Nico De Witte ◽  
Dominique Verté ◽  
Sarah Drury ◽  
Tine Buffel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Project

scholarly journals Climbing the “Ladder of Participation”: Engaging Experiential Youth in a Participatory Research Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. e288-e292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Funk ◽  
Natasha Van Borek ◽  
Darlene Taylor ◽  
Puneet Grewal ◽  
Despina Tzemis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Research Project

scholarly journals On the Value of Action and Participatory Research for Intercultural Theology: Reflections in the Light of a Research Project on “Science and Religion in French-Speaking Africa”

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benno van den Toren ◽  
Klaas L. Bom
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Intercultural Research ◽  
Intercultural Theology

Abstract This article explores the importance of “action research” and “participatory research” (ar and pr) for intercultural theology. After introducing these research strategies, it provides a theological rationale for their use in intercultural theology: (1) they move beyond false dichotomies between theoretical and practical theology; (2) they understand professional theologians as part of communities of believers; and (3) they allow for intercultural encounters which approach “the other” as partners in research rather than merely objects of research. Using the example of a research project which studies attitudes to the interface between science and Christian faith among African university students and academics, the article considers three crucial issues for the value and use of ar and pr in intercultural theology: (1) the intrinsic motivation of the partners for intercultural research projects, (2) the role of shared visions of change and (3) the question of truth implied in visions of human flourishing.1

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