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Community Organizing Participatory Action Research


COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
(COPAR)

GOALS PRINCIPLES OBJECTIVES

1. People’s empowerment 1. People have the capacity to change 1. To make people aware of social
2. Building permanent structures and organizations and bring about change realities
3. Improved quality of life 2. Based on the interest of the poorest 2. To hold structures that holds people's
3. Must lead to self-reliance basic interest
PHASES OF COPAR 3. To initiate responsible actions

Means for site selection:


1. Ocular survey
PHASE 1: PRE-ENTRY/PREPARATORY Choosing a community 2. Review of records
3. Review of municipal profile
4. Referrals and meetings
5. Consultations from LGU’s or private institutions

1. Recognize the role of local authorities


Guidelines 2. Adopt a low-key profile
3. Align appearance, speech, behavior, and lifestyle with community without disregard of being a role model

PHASE 2: ENTRY/INTEGRATION Styles Now you see, now you don’t style; Boarder style; Elitist style

Integration
1. Pagbabahay-bahay
2. Huntahan
People-centered approach
Activities 3. Participation in production process
4. Participation in social activities

Community study/deepening social investigation


Elements Demographic variables; socio-economic and cultural variables; health and
illness patterns; health resources; political/leadership patterns

Process Collecting, organizing, synthesizing, analyzing, and interpreting health data


CDX

11 Steps:
1. Determining the objectives 

2. Defining the study population 

3. Determining the data to be collected. 

4. Collecting the data 

5. Developing the instrument 

6. Actual data gathering 

7. Data collation 

8. Data presentation 

9. Data analysis 

10.Identifying the community health nursing problems
11.Priority setting 


Criteria:
Involve: 1. Nature of the problem
1. Health status problems 2. Magnitude of the problem
Community Health Problems 3. Modifiability
2. Health resources problem
3. Health-related problems 4. Preventive potential
5. Social concern

Core Group Formation Foundation of community organization; done to expand members

PHASE 3: ORGANIZATION/ACTIVITY
1. Health
Areas of Community Life 2. Education
3. Livelihood
4. Physical environment
5. Socio-spiritual
Criteria Effectivity; Efficiency; Appropriateness; Adequacy

PHASE 4: SUSTENANCE/STRENGTHENING Types Process; Impact; Outcome

Methods Networking; Coordination; Cooperation; Collaboration; Coalition

3. Goals are attained


Indication 4. Members are self-reliant
5. People empowerment is evident

PHASE 5: EXIT
Documentation 1. Terminal report
2. Photo documentation

Follow-up
1. Conduct an impact assessment
2. Preparation of a comprehensive phase out action plan
Strategy 3. Gradual pull-out of intervention
4. Institutionalization of the community organization with other agencies who provide support
5. Provision of consultancy services

1. Determine factors to ensure sustainability


2. Determine when to phase out
3. Identify which strategy plans to phase out
Steps 4. Strategies
5. Education and training
6. Networking and linkaging
7. Conduct of mobilization on health and development concern
8. Implementation of livelihood projects
9. Developing secondary leaders

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