title: Using storyboards in participatory research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To draw on the authors' experience of research conducted with vulnerable young women to argue for the use of storyboards in focus groups.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Creative methods are used increasingly in qualitative research to generate richer data and promote more meaningful participation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This paper discusses the authors' experiences of using storyboards in participatory research. This approach has a number of advantages such as promoting participation and engagement, empowering participants and enabling them to take more control over the research process.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using creative techniques with more traditional qualitative approaches may create additional, in-depth data as well as increased participation. Such approaches could be of value in nursing research in which patients, clients and service user perspectives are often vitally important.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Using creative methods in qualitative research promotes participation.
authors.affiliation: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cross
authors.affiliation: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Warwick-Booth
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Qualitative methods; data collection; feminist approaches; participatory methods; participatory research; storyboards