title: What Touched Your Heart? Collaborative Story Analysis Emerging From an Apsáalooke Cultural Context.
abstract: Community-based participatory research and decolonizing research share some recommendations for best practices for conducting research. One commonality is partnering on all stages of research; co-developing methods of data analysis is one stage with a deficit of partnering examples. We present a novel community-based and developed method for analyzing qualitative data within an Indigenous health study and explain incompatibilities of existing methods for our purposes and community needs. We describe how we explored available literature, received counsel from community Elders and experts in the field, and collaboratively developed a data analysis method consonant with community values. The method of analysis, in which interview/story remained intact, team members received story, made meaning through discussion, and generated a conceptual framework to inform intervention development, is detailed. We offer the development process and method as an example for researchers working with communities who want to keep stories intact during qualitative data analysis.
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hallett
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Held
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.|2 Messengers for Health, Crow Agency, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Alma Knows His Gun
authors.initials: AKHG
authors.lastname: McCormick
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Simonds
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Sloane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Real Bird
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: 2 Messengers for Health, Crow Agency, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schure
authors.affiliation: 2 Messengers for Health, Crow Agency, Montana, USA.|3 Bighorn Valley Health Center, Hardin, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Turnsplenty
authors.affiliation: 1 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA.
authors.forename: Coleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trottier
mesh_terms: D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000379:methods*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000208:ethnology*; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D015205:Northwestern United States; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012107:Research Design
keywords: Aboriginal people, North America; Northwestern United States; community and public health; community-based programs; interviews; participatory action research (PAR); qualitative research; reflexivity; stories/storytelling