The Use of Community-based Research to Develop a Toolkit for First Nations, Metis and Inuit People on Dialysis

Dr. Barbara Paterson

Lee Ann Sock

Tell you about our research

Show you the toolkit

Tell what we did to foster community buy-in & support

Tell you what we did to ensure that the voice of each community researcher was heard

Tell you how we assessed the quality & relevance of the toolkit

Confess our mistakes & what we learned from them

The purpose

The research team

The method

The toolkit

MOU

Research assistant selected by community

Keeping everyone informed (newsletter, conveying expectations of dissemination to community researchers & participants)

Appreciation events

Ownership of the project

Talking stick

Writing the scripts

Involving all as actors

Consultants

Bring back to participants

Trying it out with others

There is much that is NOT written about community-based research

The need to build relationship

The selection of the RA

Videography is a definite art

The great gift of being part of this project

There is a need for more discussion about what researchers and communities learn from their experience of community-based research

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