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	Intervento Partecipativo Metodi Misti	Ricerca-Azione Partecipata (PAR)
Campo	Disegno della ricerca	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1990s–2000s (formalized as mixed methods variant ~2000–2010)	1940s (Lewin); PAR as distinct tradition formalised ~1970s–1980s
Ideatore	Donna Mertens; John Creswell & Vicki Plano Clark (mixed methods traditions); community-based participatory research scholars	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	Qualitative research method
Fonte seminale	Mertens, D. M. (2009). Transformative Research and Evaluation. Guilford Press. ISBN: 978-1606230077	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	PAR, community-based participatory research, collaborative action research, participatory inquiry
Correlati	2	6
Sintesi	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.	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.