What Touched Your Heart? Collaborative Story Analysis Emerging From an Apsáalooke Cultural Context
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Community-based participatory research and decolonizing research share some recommendations for best practices for conducting research. One commonality is partnering on all stages of research; co-developing methods of data analysis is one stage with a deficit of partnering examples. We present a novel community-based and developed method for analyzing qualitative data within an Indigenous health study and explain incompatibilities of existing methods for our purposes and community needs. We describe how we explored available literature, received counsel from community Elders and experts in the field, and collaboratively developed a data analysis method consonant with community values. The method of analysis, in which interview/story remained intact, team members received story, made meaning through discussion, and generated a conceptual framework to inform intervention development, is detailed. We offer the development process and method as an example for researchers working with communities who want to keep stories intact during qualitative data analysis.
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Biographies
John Hallett, BA, was a graduate student in the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, at the time of this research and is currently a student at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Suzanne Held, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Alma Knows His Gun McCormick, AA, is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation and is the executive director of the 501c3 nonprofit organization Messengers for Health, based on the Crow Reservation in Montana, USA.
Vanessa Simonds, ScD, is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation and is an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Sloane Real Bird, MS, is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation and was a graduate student in the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA at the time of this research.
Christine Martin, BA, is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation and is a graduate student in the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Colleen Simpson, MS, is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation and serves as the chair of the Messengers for Health Community Advisory Board of Directors.
Mark Schure, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Human Development at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
Nicole Turnsplenty, FNP-BC, is a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow Indian) Nation and is a descendant of the Blackfeet Nation and is a family nurse practitioner at Bighorn Valley Health Center, Hardin, Montana, USA.
Coleen Trottier, BA, BS, is a member of the Blackfeet Nation and is an undergraduate student in the Department of Psychology at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
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