Table 3 Articles with high-level community participation located in rural and regional health settings
From: Community participation in rural health: a scoping review
No. | Author | Year | Location | Intervention | Study design/methods/sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Broussard [53] | 2003 | USA | Development of community health networks | Case study with mixed methods survey; Two rural communities located in Louisiana, St Marys parish population 53 500, Vermillion parish population 50 755 |
2 | Coady [56] | 2009 | Canada | Volunteers on community health boards | Qualitative study with focus groups; sample 45 volunteers, working on community health boards, population rural shire of 50 000 |
3 | Johns [35] | 2007 | Australia | Health service redevelopment | Case study with individual and group interviews1; Two Tasmanian rural communities, greater Oatlands population 6101, Deloraine population 5524 |
4 | Kegler [55] | 2008 | USA | Citizen involvement in paid/unpaid rural health leadership positions | Case study with mixed methods including postal survey, telephone interviews, and focus groups. California, sample N=243, 58% of respondents were from rural sites (n=140). Rural region/municipality combined area population 43 298 |
5 | O'Meara [57] | 2007 | Australia | Council-led community capacity building | Qualitative design with content analysis of project documents and focus groups with community members; Gippsland, Victoria N= 9829; Korumburra 4465, Trafalgar 2685, postcode 3925 n= 2679 including Newhaven 428, San Remo 1017, Cape Woolamai 12342 |
6 | Huttlinger [54] | 2004 | USA | Primary healthcare community events | Case study with mixed methods survey; Rural Appalachia, Virginia area population N=17543. Population N=3310 total health event participants, sample n=752 completed surveys, population including Wise, Virginia (3286) and Mountain City, Tennessee (2531) 3 |