A community-academic co-design approach to implementing an Indigenous patient navigator in primary care (2024 - 2026)
Walking Together uses co-design and community based participatory action research with a team that includes Indigenous researchers and an Indigenous Oversight Circle. The team will design, implement and evaluate an Indigenous patient navigator role in primary care to improve cultural safety and patients' experiences for Indigenous primary care patients.
Co-design for this project involves two steps:
Step 1 involves 'key informant interviews' following a rigorous literature review on Indigenous Patient Navigation in primary care and Indigenous self-identification in health care.
Step 2 involves 'Sharing Circles' (focus group interviews) with the urban Indigenous community in Kingston to identify unmet needs, qualities, values and priorities for an Indigenous Patient Navigator role, and perspectives on self-identification. What is learned during both steps will be inform the co-design and all data will be presented to the Indigenous Oversight Circle to inform the development of an Indigenous Patient Navigator role.
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