Comparar métodos

	Métodos Mixtos de Intervención Participativa	Investigación-acción	Investigación-Acción Participativa (IAP)
Campo	Diseño de investigación	Investigación cualitativa	Cualitativa
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1990s–2000s (formalized as mixed methods variant ~2000–2010)	1946	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Autor original	Donna Mertens; John Creswell & Vicki Plano Clark (mixed methods traditions); community-based participatory research scholars	Kurt Lewin; expanded by Kemmis, McTaggart, Reason & Bradbury	Kurt Lewin (action research foundations, 1940s); systematised for participatory contexts by Orlando Fals Borda, Paulo Freire, and William Foote Whyte
Tipo	Mixed methods research design	Method	Qualitative research method
Fuente seminal	Mertens, D. M. (2009). Transformative Research and Evaluation. Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1606230077	Lewin, K. (1946). Action research and minority problems. Journal of Social Issues, 2(4), 34–46.	Kemmis, S., McTaggart, R., & Nixon, R. (2014). The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research. Springer.
Alias	PIMM, participatory mixed methods intervention, community-based intervention mixed methods, action-oriented mixed methods design	Participatory Action Research, PAR, Collaborative Inquiry	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
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Resumen	Participatory Intervention Mixed Methods (PIMM) is a research design that embeds community members as co-investigators in the planning and delivery of an intervention, while collecting and integrating both quantitative outcome data and qualitative experiential data. The design bridges participatory action research traditions with the rigor of mixed methods, enabling researchers to simultaneously measure whether an intervention works and understand how and why it works from participants' own perspectives.	Action research is a collaborative research methodology in which researchers work with practitioners and community members to investigate a problem, implement change, and evaluate outcomes, cycling through reflection, action, and learning. Developed by Kurt Lewin (1946), action research bridges research and practice, aiming simultaneously to produce knowledge and practical improvement.	Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a qualitative, community-centred methodology in which researchers and community members collaborate as co-investigators to identify a shared problem, take deliberate action, observe outcomes, and reflect critically on results — cycling iteratively until meaningful change is achieved. Unlike conventional research that studies people from the outside, PAR treats participants as active agents who co-own the research process, the knowledge produced, and the practical interventions that follow.