Legal dissemination protections in community-based participatory health equity research.

Background: There are legal protections for nurse researchers at public universities who employ community-based participatory research (CBPR) in research about social or health inequities. Dissemination of CBPR research data by researchers or participants may divulge unjust laws and create an imperative for university involvement.

Research Question: What are United States-based legal dissemination protections for CBPR health equity nurse researchers?

Research Design: Three case examples employing CBPR are examined: 1) a mixed methods study with participants reporting illegal discrimination in a municipal initiative about capacity building in community-based organizations serving children; 2) a visual methods study exposing potential clean air law violations in environmental justice research; and 3) a study examining workload violations and illegal discrimination among hotel workers.

An intersectional analysis of the health status, work conditions, and nonwork conditions of the U.S. working-classed across class, sex, race, and nativity identities.

Background: Classism, sexism, racism, and nativism intersect to create inequitable conditions and health outcomes based on workers' social identities. This study describes the health status, work conditions, and nonwork conditions of the United States (U.S.

Unexpected capacity-building experiences of multicultural, multilingual participants in a public health initiative.

Aims: This study of a levy-voter funded public health initiative program (1) identifies capacity-building concerns, (2) summarizes those concerns at the community-based organization (CBO) level, and (3) documents the desired CBO capacity-building outcome.

Participants: Nineteen participants from nine CBOs were included, representing 95% of participants (19/20) and 90% of CBOs (9/10) from the initiative's program population.

Methods: Interviews were conducted.

Organizational contexts, implementation process, and capacity outcomes of multicultural, multilingual Home-Based Programs in public initiatives: A Mixed-Methods study.

Aims: The study aim was to examine the impact of a home-based programme intervention on organizational contexts, implementation processes and organizational capacity outcomes from multicultural, multilingual participants working at community-based organizations.

Design: This was a sequential exploratory, mixed-methods longitudinal study using community-based participatory research principles.

Sample: Twenty participants from nine multicultural, multilingual community-based organizations were in this public health initiative's intervention to develop community-designed, home-based programmes.

Emancipatory Photovoice Research: A Primer.

Photovoice can be more than a research method for communities to identify and mitigate social oppressions. Photovoice has the potential for emancipatory outcomes and the transformation of power relations. This article serves as a primer for beginning researchers who are new to the emancipatory power of the photovoice method or for advanced researchers who would like to re-imagine their current use of the photovoice method to an emancipatory approach that elevates and empowers.

Institutional procedural discrimination, institutional racism, and other institutional discrimination: A nursing research example.

Institutional discrimination matters. The purpose of this longitudinal community-based participatory research study was to examine institutional procedural discrimination, institutional racism, and other institutional discrimination, and their relationships with participants' health during a maternal and child health program in a municipal initiative. Twenty participants from nine multilingual, multicultural community-based organizations were included.

Health equity knowledge development: A conversation with Black nurse researchers.

Can the institutional systems that prepare Black nurse researchers question the ways their systemic pathways have impacted health equity knowledge development in nursing? We invite our readers to keep this question in mind and engage with our conversation as Black nurse researchers, scholars, educators, and clinicians. The purpose of our conversation, and this article, is to explore the transactional impact of knowledge development pathways and Black faculty retention pathways on the state of health equity knowledge in nursing today. Over a series of conversations, we discuss the research exploitation of communities of color, deficit research funding, knowledge capitalization, the marginalization of diversity as a continuous process, a lack of sociocultural authority, and our thoughts on solutions.

Classifying stigma experience of women living with HIV in Indonesia through the social ecological model.

Little is known how stigma theories apply to women living with HIV (WLWH). To apply stigma theories to WLWH, and locate within the dimensions of the Social-Ecological Model (SEM). Using a literature review and a theoretical subtraction to apply stigma forms to the SEM dimensions.

Occupational health research beyond the work setting: inclusive inquiry with ethnic minority and immigrant workers.

Ethnic minority and immigrant workers comprise a sizable proportion of the low-wage workforce. They are surprisingly understudied despite their workplace prominence. Factors such as workplace policies, structures, worker-related characteristics, and research designs preclude their comprehensive research participation when studies are conducted in work settings.

Creating Emancipatory Dialogues About Identity and Health by Modernizing Interviews.

Emancipatory insights about health as constituted by demographic identity codifiers remain hidden using current interview methods and analytic techniques. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the Identity, Research, and Health Dialogic Open-Ended (I-ReH-DO) Interview was used across 3 separate research topics to enhance emancipatory knowledge development. Three featured research topics focus on health issues relevant to populations worldwide, including asthma management, hypertension management, and preconception care.

A Content Analysis Study: Concerns of Indonesian Women Infected With HIV by Husbands Who Used Intravenous Drugs.

Few international studies document the concerns of women living with HIV (WLWH) who were infected by their intravenous drug-using husbands. Our content analysis described the concerns of this population by analyzing 12 interviews with WLWH. Three main concerns were discussed by the women: dealing with anger and being a dedicated wife, going home to one's parents as the only place to go, and being strong and staying alive for the children.

Integrating Faith-based and Community-based Participatory Research Approaches to Adapt the Korean Parent Training Program.

Purpose: Faith and community based inquiry approaches are rarely used to develop research interventions. The purpose of this article is to present how a research team worked with six Korean American Christian churches to revise the prototype Korean Parent Training Program (KPTP), based upon the Bright Futures Parenting Program. The collaboration was sought to better integrate and align the KPTP with Korean culture and faith.

Interconception Challenges of Women Who Had Prior Preterm Births.

Objective: To describe the interconception challenges of women who had prior preterm births.

Design: We used a cross-sectional design and collected data via survey.

Setting: King County, Washington.

Advancing Nursing Research in the Visual Era: Reenvisioning the Photovoice Process Across Phenomenological, Grounded Theory, and Critical Theory Methodologies.

Photovoice is a powerful research method that employs participant photography for advancing voice, knowledge, and transformative change among groups historically or currently marginalized. Paradoxically, this research method risks exploitation of participant voice because of weak methodology to method congruence. The purposes of this retrospective article are to revisit current interdisciplinary research using photovoice and to suggest how to advance photovoice by improving methodology-method congruence.

Applying Critical Discourse Analysis in Health Policy Research: Case Studies in Regional, Organizational, and Global Health.

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a promising methodology for policy research in nursing. As a critical theoretical methodology, researchers use CDA to analyze social practices and language use in policies to examine whether such policies may promote or impede social transformation. Despite the widespread use of CDA in other disciplines such as education and sociology, nursing policy research employing CDA methodology is sparse.

Online responses to the ending of the one-child policy in China: implications for preconception care.

Aim: A critical analysis of online public postings in response to the news about the ending of China's one-child policy was conducted. The specific study aims were to 1) identify the dominant public discourse in response to the news about the ending of the one-child policy and the beginning of the new two-child policy, and 2) explore implications for preconception care from the public discourse.

Material And Methods: Data sources were 10 top-ranked, online news media sites in China, including one Hong Kong-based media site.

Transnationalism: A Framework for Advancing Nursing Research With Contemporary Immigrants.

This article advances nursing research by presenting transnationalism as a framework for inquiry with contemporary immigrants. Transnationalism occurs when immigrants maintain relationships that transcend the geographical borders of their origin and host countries. Immigrants use those relationships to experience health differently within concurrent socioeconomic, political, and cultural contexts than national situated populations.

Managerial and Organizational Discourses of Workplace Bullying.

Objective: To explore how workplace bullying is addressed by hospital nursing unit managers and organizational policies.

Background: Although workplace bullying is costly to organizations, nurses report that managers do not consistently address the issue.

Methods: This study used discourse analysis to analyze interview data and policy documents.

An Investigation of Organizational and Regulatory Discourses of Workplace Bullying.

Organizations use policies to set standards for employee behaviors. Although many organizations have policies that address workplace bullying, previous studies have found that these policies affect neither workplace bullying for targets who are seeking assistance in ending the behaviors nor managers who must address incidents of bullying. This article presents the findings of a study that used critical discourse analysis to examine the language used in policies written by health care organizations and regulatory agencies to regulate workplace bullying.

An Exploration of Managers' Discourses of Workplace Bullying.

Aim: To identify discourses used by hospital nursing unit managers to characterize workplace bullying, and their roles and responsibilities in workplace bullying management.

Background: Nurses around the world have reported being the targets of bullying. These nurses often report that their managers do not effectively help them resolve the issue.

Pilot study of the Korean parent training program using a partial group-randomized experimental study.

Problem: Korean American (KA) parents need a culturally tailored parent training that helps them bridge the Korean and American cultures and divergent parenting practices.

Methods: The Korean Parent Training Program (KPTP) was pilot tested with 48 KA mothers of children between 3 and 8 years old using a partial group-randomized controlled experimental study design. Researchers gathered self-report survey and observation data.

An exploration of social justice intent in photovoice research studies from 2008 to 2013.

In an age where digital images are omnipresent, the use of participant photography in qualitative research has become accessible and commonplace. Yet, scant attention is paid to the social justice impact of photovoice amongst studies that have used this innovative method as a way to promote social justice. There is a need to review this method to understand its contributions and possibilities.

Initiating policy, systems, and environmental changes for childhood obesity prevention by engaging six faith-based organizations.

Little is known about how to engage faith-organizations, especially churches, when using policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches for prevention. This article documents the PSE changes implemented by engaging 6 faith organizations, with an estimated reach of 3500 members, for 18 months. Timeline (n = 6), focus group (n = 6), report (n = 18), and observational meeting (n = 16) and event (n = 5) summaries were analyzed using content analysis.

Adverse birth outcomes among Korean women compared to white women in the United States.

To evaluate the risk of adverse birth outcomes among US- and foreign-born Korean women compared to US-born white women, we used the 2004 US natality file to assess the risk of low birth weight (LBW), preterm delivery (PTD), and cesarean delivery (CD) among US-born (N = 943) and foreign-born Koreans (N = 11,974) compared to white women (N = 25,834). Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using regression models to assess the risk of these outcomes. US-born (aOR = 0.

Collective knowledge sharing as a social justice strategy: the difference it made in a service project about preterm birth disparity.

Knowledge about how health disparities are created and sustained from those affected is needed. Collective knowledge sharing is one way to redefine and revalue dialogue and critique processes with the aim of promoting just relationships of knowledge production. This article describes how a community service project focused on using collective knowledge sharing as a social justice strategy with health ministry volunteers produced insights about preterm birth disparity issues.