Background
The community participation agenda
The Australian rural context
Methods
Study design
Identifying the research question
Identifying relevant studies
Criterion | Inclusion | Exclusion |
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Time period | January 1990 and February 2012 | Any study outside these dates |
Language | English | Non-English |
Type of article | Original research article published in a peer reviewed journal | Any article that was not original research and/or unpublished |
Study focus | Community participation | No reference to community participation, i.e. individual consultation between health professional and client |
Health service | Rural | No reference to rural health care services |
Geographical place of study | International, developed countries | Developing countries |
Population and sample | Mixed population sociodemographic | Reference to only a single sociodemographic factor i.e. gender, cultural group |
SPIDER Tool1
| Search terms |
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S
| (“rural” OR “regional”) AND (“population” OR “healthcare” OR “community”) |
P of I
| (“communit*” OR “consumer” OR “citizen”) AND (“participation” OR “engage*” OR |
“involve*” OR “partner*” OR “collaborat*” OR “develop*”) | |
OR “cooperative behavio*” OR “stakeholder governance” OR “community network*” OR “community develop*” OR “social capital health services” OR “community-institutional relations” OR “community health planning” OR “health service*” OR “health planning” | |
D/E/R
| “qualitative” OR “quantitative” OR “mixed method*” OR “community participation action” OR “case study” OR “cohort study” OR “quality assurance” |
Study selection
Data charting and collation
No. | Author | Year | Location | Intervention | Study design/methods/sample |
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1 | Broussard [53] | 2003 | USA | Development of community health networks | Case study with mixed methods survey; Two rural communities located in Louisiana, St Marys parish population 53 500, Vermillion parish population 50 755 |
2 | Coady [56] | 2009 | Canada | Volunteers on community health boards | Qualitative study with focus groups; sample 45 volunteers, working on community health boards, population rural shire of 50 000 |
3 | Johns [35] | 2007 | Australia | Health service redevelopment | Case study with individual and group interviews1; Two Tasmanian rural communities, greater Oatlands population 6101, Deloraine population 5524 |
4 | Kegler [55] | 2008 | USA | Citizen involvement in paid/unpaid rural health leadership positions | Case study with mixed methods including postal survey, telephone interviews, and focus groups. California, sample N=243, 58% of respondents were from rural sites (n=140). Rural region/municipality combined area population 43 298 |
5 | O'Meara [57] | 2007 | Australia | Council-led community capacity building | Qualitative design with content analysis of project documents and focus groups with community members; Gippsland, Victoria N= 9829; Korumburra 4465, Trafalgar 2685, postcode 3925 n= 2679 including Newhaven 428, San Remo 1017, Cape Woolamai 12342
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6 | Huttlinger [54] | 2004 | USA | Primary healthcare community events | Case study with mixed methods survey; Rural Appalachia, Virginia area population N=17543. Population N=3310 total health event participants, sample n=752 completed surveys, population including Wise, Virginia (3286) and Mountain City, Tennessee (2531) 3
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