Community sharing: Contextualizing Western research notions of contamination within an Indigenous research paradigm.

ABSTRACT: Báa nnilah is a chronic illness self-management program designed by and for the Apsáalooke (Crow) community. Arising from a collaboration between an Indigenous nonprofit organization and a university-based research team, Báa nnilah's development, implementation, and evaluation have been influenced by both Indigenous and Western research paradigms (WRPs). Báa nnilah was evaluated using a randomized wait-list control group design. In a WRP, contamination, or intervention information shared by the intervention group with the control group, is actively discouraged as it makes ascertaining causality difficult, if not impossible. This approach is not consonant with Apsáalooke cultural values that include the encouragement of sharing helpful information with others, supporting an Indigenous resea

SUBMITTER: Allen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8926935 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature