My Voices Heard: Participatory Action Research to Community Engagement of the Immigrant Seniors
Notice bibliographique
Résumé
Background: The most common risk factors that increase the chances of immigrant seniors becoming socially isolated and vulnerable include lack of awareness of or access to resources, physical and mental health issues, and linguistic and socio-cultural barriers. Continuous hours of childminding further exacerbate the issue. The social isolation of seniors can cause higher social and financial costs. Method: Realizing the compounding challenge of social isolation and failure to bring attention to vulnerable seniors in engagement activities aiming to reduce their social isolation and improve physical and mental health, the Nepalese Community Society of Calgary (NCSC) implemented participatory action research (PAR) using focused group discussion (FGD) and expert mapping as key tools to find out the most pertinent activities for this group that would bring buy-in and increase a wider uptake. The FGDs were done with a diverse group of participants from June to Sept 2022: male elders (n = 44), female elders (n = 31), male and female elders together (n = 67), adults (n = 83), and seniors and household members together (n = 140), to capture different perspectives. The issues and activities identified through FGDs were prioritized following the scoring method (1 to 10 scale) with randomly selected elders (n = 55). The results obtained through prioritization were further scored by the member of the project steering committee (PSC) and the project staff (n = 21) handling projects to have a ground truth and make a prioritization methodologically more robust and prioritized activities have a potential of uptake. Finally, a weighted average was calculated for each issue and activity. Results and Conclusion: The results portray that socio-cultural activities stood to be a top priority to effectively engage seniors, help relieve their physical and mental stress, and pacify their craving for back home and which also bears the highest potential for intergenerational learning. Followed by this was the activity that mimics their lives back home: backyard gardening, as it makes them engaged with nature and transfer the culture to their offspring via agriculture. Senior meet and greet obtained the third highest score followed by the celebration of special days of the elders. The results from the participatory action research were an eye-opener for the community to start implementing a bottom-up approach while defining and refining engagement activities for the seniors. The degree of uptake in earlier activities (pre-prioritization) was poor while there has been a consistently higher rate of participation afterwards.
Récupéré en direct depuis OpenAlex et désinversé. Les résumés ne sont pas conservés dans cette base de données : les index inversés représentent 8,6 Go des 9,3 Go de texte de la base, et le serveur dispose de 13 Go libres.
Comment cette classification a été obtenuedéplier
Prédiction machine sur la base complète
Imitation des enseignantsNi prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.
Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)
| Catégorie | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Métarecherche | 0,076 | 0,045 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict) | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Méta-épidémiologie (sens large) | 0,001 | 0,001 |
| Bibliométrie | 0,002 | 0,002 |
| Études des sciences et des technologies | 0,013 | 0,015 |
| Communication savante | 0,010 | 0,006 |
| Science ouverte | 0,004 | 0,018 |
| Intégrité de la recherche | 0,005 | 0,005 |
| Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger) | 0,005 | 0,000 |
Scores machine (provisoires)
Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.
Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découleClassification
machine, non validéePrédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.
Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».