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Participatory Qualitative content analysis

Participatory Qualitative Content Analysis (PQCA) integrates the systematic text-analytic procedures of qualitative content analysis with the collaborative, power-sharing ethos of participatory research. Community members or stakeholders join the research team as co-analysts — helping to define the coding frame, interpret categories, and validate findings — rather than serving merely as data sources. The result is analysis that is both methodologically rigorous and grounded in the perspectives of those most affected by the research topic.

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Participatory Qualitative Content Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / qualitative
  • Schreier, M. (2012). Qualitative Content Analysis in Practice. Sage. · ISBN 978-1849205931
  • Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice. Sage. · ISBN 978-0761966456
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