We are very pleased to announce that SJT Initiative’s latest report, Concept Mapping of Photovoices, has been published in the Family Community Health journal.
Special thanks to the members of the St. James Town Initiat’ve’s community action group and partner grassroots organizations for their assistance with recruitment. We would also like to thank the participants who were gracious enough to give their time and inputs to the project.
Abstract: This inquiry successfully sequenced and integrated 2 participatory research methods: Photovoice and concept mapping. In the Photovoice phase, immigrant residents shared perceptions and thoughts of their neighbourhood through photographs and stories, capturing neighbourhood characteristics that influence their health and well-being. In the concept mapping phase, active involvement of immigrant residents was facilitated to systematically organize and build consensus around the wide range of neighbourohod factors identified from the Photovoice work. The combination of these 2 participatory methods resulted in a conceptual framework of factors influencing immigrants’ health and well-being, whereas the photographs with captions facilitated interpretation and action at multiple levels.
