Pesquisa participativa baseada na comunidade: intencionalidades e enfoques presentes na literatura da área da saúde

Abstract

This paper aimed to discuss how Community Based Participatory Research has been incorporated into Brazilian health research around. This is an integrative review carried out in national databases in the health area, including scientific production published in Brazil, between 2018 and 2021. There were fifteen selected articles, with different methodological approaches that show a diversity of themes (food and nutritional security, bullying, art education, child health, recycling and health work, Covid-19, and health emergencies), also it was targeted audiences them (health professionals and managers, students, and community). These studies announce the different aspects of participatory research (action research, intervention research, and participant research) which follow-up strategies, such as research committees, which can strengthen the inclusion of actors in all research´s stages. The use of multiple methodological tools (workshops, focus groups, interviews) and data triangulation are also heralded as strategies to strengthen the participation of professionals and the community into a process of researching ‘within’. The participatory research´s title, and its origins and assumptions have not been applied uniformly. Regardless of the denominations and methodological choices, the review points have figured out that the production of knowledge in one united way intends to break with the ‘researcher-researched’, subject-object dichotomy and invest in a ‘participation policy’, which could be sensitive to social realities and demands, with a view to social transformation