Building Online Community on SNAC: A Netnographic Study of the Early Years Sector
s, Poster for Qualitative Methods Conference Using Participatory Mapping as a Tool to Improve Community Engagement John C Aitken, La Trobe Rural Health School Virginia Dickson Swift, La Trobe Rural Health School Jane Farmer, La Trobe University Community engagement and action research rely on input from participants in conjunction with the researcher to develop new knowledge. This presentation is based on a study to involve community participants in an action research that would improve health outcomes for rural people. One of the challenges of action research is getting participants to fully engage, and using participatory mapping can enhance this process. Asking community participants to identify places on a map that affect their health is one method of starting a conversation about health and well being. Participants located places on the provided map that had a positive or negative effect on their own health and well being, and they were also asked what places had a positive or negative effect on the community's health and well being. Thematic analysis provided places and topics which were then shared with the action research group, key themes were chosen for discussion by the group, and the results demonstrated that spaces affecting health can occur inside and outside the home, may vary over time, and have different meanings for different demographic groups. The concept of changing spaces to better suit the health and well being, of community members, was highlighted as a strategy to improve health outcomes. All of these spaces contribute to the therapeutic landscape of these rural communities. Use of space reflects a need for safety, exercise, sharing, privacy, reflection, and volunteerism. Some of these uses are mutually exclusive and can lead to conflict between community members. Contemporary Status of Family Centred Care in Saudi Arabian Hospitals Hawa Alabdulaziz, Monash University/King Abdulaziz University Cheryle Moss, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University Dr. Beverley Copnell, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University Family centred care (FCC) is a philosophy widely endorsed in paediatric health care. While the literature demonstrates that nurses were found to have a good understanding of the key elements of FCC, there is limited empirical evidence regarding the implementation of this approach in their practice. The studies that have examined nurses' perceptions and practices of FCC have been mainly conducted using quantitative methods. Thus, this study is undertaken by qualitative methods to explore paediatric nurses' perceptions and practices of FCC in Saudi hospitals. The aim of this study was to illuminate nurses' perceptions and practices of FCC through their conversations and observations. A mixed methods study used 335 questionnaires; 18 day shift observation and 10 semistructured interviews to explore FCC in the Saudi context from the perspectives of paediatric nurses and families. This paper reports the results of the interviews and observations. The findings of the interviews showed that nurses have limited and shallow understanding of what FCC means as a model of care. This illuminates how their limited understanding of FCC reflected on their everyday practice. However, they were in common agreement on the importance of families during hospitalisation and the significant role they play. In conclusion, FCC in Saudi is still undercover. Approaches need to be taken to introduce this topic to nurses and enrich their knowledge which might improve their practices in the future. This research will contribute to a global understanding of current practices of FCC and has implications for education, practice, and policy development in Saudi. International Journal of Qualitative Methods January December 2016: 1 14 a The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1609406916628969 ijqm.sagepub.com Creative Commons CC BY NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (http:/www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by nc/3.0/ which permits non commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https:/us.sagepub.com/en us/nam/open access at sage) Participation Through Narrations: Establishing Boundaries Denise Blanchard, University of Wollongong Sharon Bourgeois, University of Wollongong Katherine Nelson, Victoria University of Wellington Qualitative methods may be boundless and may push boundaries. At the end of the day, methods progress research. This includes accounting for participants taking part in the research. While qualitative research is field of inquiry in its own right and crosses disciplines, researchers need to ensure that inquiry methods are both trustworthy and show integrity. Narrations provide words and actions beyond a description to reflect participants' contributions as genuine. An analysis of three studies identified how researchers and participants' repeated oral contributions and actions show evidence of valid participation. The boundaries associated with narrations became obvious in the research examples where agreements emerge. Narrations provide substance and evidence of boundary in qualitative research, through reworking of events, negotiations, and participation with the researcher. As a methodological tool, narrations provide a means of asserting participation through the establishment of boundaries and advancement of research outcomes. This poster explores three studies showing how narrations represent a reworking of the gathered stories to provide boundaries in qualitative research. Autoethnography of a Dental Education Process Within a Nursing Home in Brazil Alexandre Favero Bulgarelli, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Ramona Feranda Cerioti Toassi, Faculty of Dentistry at UFRGS Ione Carvalho Pinto, School of Nursing at EERP USP Fabiana Costa Machado Zacharias, School of Nursing at EERP USP Brazilian dentistry curricula/syllabus faces a new perspective to construct future dentists, to be prepared to face the demographic and epidemiological reality of Brazilian oral health demands. Thinking of that, the faculty of dentistry of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul offers extramural dentistry experiences to its students in an older people nursing home. During the process of tutoring the students on their activities, a faculty professor developed an autoethnographic study to describe and comprehend the relational process of teaching outside the university boundaries. In this case, this self reflection and writing explore the professor/researcher's personal experience, emotions, and values. This autoethnography allows connecting the realities of extramural teaching experience to the cultural, political, and social understandings of the teaching environment. Based on anthropological self narrative and cultural descriptions of the social environment where the geriatric dentistry teaching happens, the researcher presents, as preliminary findings, two paths to guide the understanding of the relational process on teaching geriatric dentistry outside the university. The first path is to construct a good and healthy partnership between professor, students, and the older people. This assumption suggests that a good personal and professional relationship should be part of the process to a good social and teaching environment. Other path is to live in the same balance and focusing a same teaching target. This target needs to be socially constructed by all professors and agreed by all students. Toward that, an autoethnography with this research object can create instrument to other health professor to develop their teaching process in an extramural situation. Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to Postpartum Care Among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women With Gestational Diabetes: Translating Problems Into Informed Action Catherine Chamberlain, Monash University C. Preece, Monash University S. Campbell, Monash University B. Fredericks, Monash University Women with gestational diabetes have a very high risk of developing type 2 diabetes after pregnancy and are therefore advised to have diabetes screening 1 2 yearly after pregnancy. However, we conducted an audit of all women who had gestational diabetes from 2004 to 2010 and gave birth at Cairns Hospital (Far North Queensland, Australia) and found very low rates of postpartum glucose screening for all women, but particularly among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, with the lowest rates seen among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women living in the regional centre (Cairns) The reasons for these low rates are not understood, particularly from the perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. We are conducting a qualitative study to understand the key factors affecting access to care from the perspectives of women, health workers, and other 'key stakeholders. Focus groups and interviews are being undertaken in three incremental stages: 1. Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander women with gestational diabetes (living in urban and remote areas separately) to understand barriers and facilitators and identify helpful strategies. 2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers to reflect on women's perspectives and build on possible strategies. 3. Key stakeholders to refine possible strategies and develop implementation strategies. The qualitative findings will be synthesized with the quantitative data and enable triangulation of findings to understand individual community and system level barriers (social determinants) that will assist services to meet the needs of women and communities. Learning From Each Other: Cross Cultural Philosophy Ylona Chun Tie, James Cook University Melanie Birks, James Cook University Jane Mills, Co