Community Leaders and Participatory Work Process with Community for Working on Drugs in a Community of Bangkok Metropolitan Area
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https://doi.org/10.14456/nrru-rdi.2024.22Keywords:
Participatory Process, Drugs, Community Leaders, Bangkok Metropolitan AreaAbstract
Background and Objective: Drugs abuse impacts individuals, groups, communities, and societies. The community participatory work process is important mechanisms for current prevention and solution of drugs problems. This study examined participatory work process with community of community leaders for working on drugs in a community of Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA).
Methology: This study employs qualitative research based on the interpretive phenomenological approach. A total of 11 individuals consist of key informants were selected through purposive sampling and voluntary participation. This includes 7 community leaders and 4 members of a drug prevention network. Data collection was conducted using semi-structured interviews, with a content validity index for the questions ranging between 0.50 and 1.00. In-depth individual interviews were used to gather data and analyzed using content analysis.
Results: Participatory work process with community of community leaders for working on drugs comprises a) monitoring, supervision, and surveillance; b) discussion, exchange, and planning; c) working on drugs according to community context; and d) care and assistance. The participatory work process is cyclical, continuous, mutually impactful, and repeatable to benefit individuals, groups, communities, and societies. The capital and power of community is used to drive community-level work, expanding to work with an outside person, group, or organization to support prevention, problem-solving, and recurrence prevention.
Discussion: Participatory work process with community in the urban context of the BMA where drug problems are complex, diverse, and expandible. The integration of community efforts with external cooperation, knowledge, skills, techniques, and resources from outside the community to create power and speed in solving problems. It is necessary to create a new generation of community leaders and regularly organizing train workers to bring continuity and sustainability in the participatory work process with community.
Suggestion: Community leaders should continuously organize meetings and work plans in the community and participate in activities at network partners or outside organizations in order to build strength in dealing with and solving drug problems. The BMA should add a project to recruit new generation of community leaders including training programs for current community leaders and networks of working on drugs.
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