Dear Isabel,
We successfully recruited South Asian women with limited English by
visiting their weekly meeting in a room attached to a Sikh Gurdwara. In
another project, we attended a community centre used by the local Hindu
population - separate from the Temple. On both occasions we were
accompanied by a health advocate already known to the groups, who was
fluent in the relevant language(s). (Drawback of this is that the most
disempowered may not be attending any social group, so would still be
missed...)
I'll forward contact details provately of a colleague at QMUL, who has
conducted research in Tower Hamlets.
Kind regards,
Alison
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Alison Hipwell
Arthritis Research Campaign Educational Research Fellow
PhD Candidate
WF108
Applied Research Centre - Health & Lifestyle Interventions
Self Management Programme
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
Coventry University
Priory Street
Coventry
CV1 5FB
Direct tel: 024 7688 7188
Admin office: 024 7688 7450
-----Original Message-----
From: Health of minority ethnic communities in the UK
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: 14 January 2008 15:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: consultation processes with 'hard to reach' groups
Absolutely - as it happened this query arrived while I was in a meeting
with the National Black Carers & Care Workers Network discussing the
research it has been conducting (with us and the Afiya trust) into
support for Black Carers 5 years after the report 'we care too' was
published, and in the context of the new carers strategy - which
actually HAS found 'bme' carers 'hard to reach' - or as our lead said,
'easy to ignore' but NOT hard to reach if you adopt the network approach
and the social action / community engagement models that we and UCLAN
both advocate....
These reports used that approach for two different issues:
Evaluation of Patient Information Resources on Osteomalacia in Asian
Languages Johnson MRD, Samanta A, Hudson N, Culley L, Guo F, Rauf A.
Seacole Research Paper 5, Leicester: MSRC (for Arthritis Research
Campaign) 2007
Our Vision Too: Improving the Access of Ethnic Minority Visually
Impaired People to appropriate services Seacole Research Paper 4
Leicester: MSRC with Housing Corporation and Thomas Pocklington Trust
(Asesha Morjaria-Keval and MRD Johnson), February 2005
(can supply if required, at a small cost, any decent library might have
a copy)
or see
'Engaging Communities and Users: Health and Social Care Research with
Ethnic Minority Communities' in Health and Social Research in
Multiethnic Societies (Ed: Nazroo JY) London: Routledge Chapter 4 :48-64
2006
and
'Using Empowerment as a healthcare strategy to promote health' in (Eds)
Dooher J, Byrt R Empowerment and Participation: Power, influence and
control in contemporary healthcare Quay Books (Mark Allen) (2002)
(Volumes 1: xi-xii; and 2)
or
'Research with ethnic minority groups in health and social welfare' in
(Eds) Williams C, Soydan H, Johnson M Social Work and Minorities
Routledge 1998 (Mark R D Johnson, Gurnam Singh) :231-246 reprinted in
Race and Ethnicity: Critical Concepts(Ed: H Goulbourne) Routledge 2001
Volume IV Chapter 77 pp 250-266.
Good luck - let us know how you get on and maybe we can publish it in
Diversity?
(the journal)
Mark R D Johnson
Professor of Diversity in Health & Social Care Mary Seacole Research
Centre, DMU -----Original Message-----
From: Health of minority ethnic communities in the UK
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jane
Fountain
Sent: 14 January 2008 15:06
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: consultation processes with 'hard to reach' groups
Dear all
I am glad you put 'hard to reach' in inverted commas - it depends who is
trying to do the reaching!
See the Community Engagement Model from the Centre for Ethnicity and
Health at the University of Central Lancashire. Tran the women to
conduct the research themselves!
Details of the model can be found in chapter 6 of the attached book.
Professor Jane Fountain
Centre for Ethnicity and Health
University of Central Lancashire
Preston PR1 2HE
UK
-----Original Message-----
From: Health of minority ethnic communities in the UK
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Isabel Dyck
Sent: 14 January 2008 13:36
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: consultation processes with 'hard to reach' groups
Dear All,
I've had an enquiry looking for guidance on consultation processes in
setting up research with 'hard to reach' groups, and wondered if anyone
knew of any research/literature on the topic? The project concerns
patient consultation and finding a methodology which would be useful for
engaging with "hard to reach" groups. One target group would be
disadvantaged women carers from the Asian community with little English
which we would propose to carry out within Tower Hamlets, the other
would focus upon rural disadvantage, probably in the south west or north
east.
Best wishes, Isabel
--
Professor Isabel Dyck
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS
UK
tel: 020 7882 5416/5400
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