title: African primary care research: participatory action research.
abstract: This article is part of the series on African primary care research and focuses on participatory action research. The article gives an overview of the emancipatory-critical research paradigm, the key characteristics and different types of participatory action research. Following this it describes in detail the methodological issues involved in professional participatory action research and running a cooperative inquiry group. The article is intended to help students with writing their research proposal.
authors.affiliation: Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University. rm@sun.ac.za.
authors.forename: Bob
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mash
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012107:Research Design