Pilot Study of Reliability and Validity of a Stakeholder Analysis System for Health Intervention Planning for Inuit of Kalaallit Nunaat

Abstract

The international community of Indigenous people face challenges to health and wellness that are disproportionate to the burdens of non-Indigenous communities. Indigenous communities face complex natural disasters, cultural disruptions, healthcare shortages, social traumas, and other factors contributing to pathology. Prior evidence supports that growing disease burdens for Native communities poses a threat to global diversity and the welfare of Earth; however, much of the research on Native health concerns has been subject to issues of the research-to-practice gap and has failed to produce usable data or practical solutions for the issues at hand. In this research, for the internationalization of psychology, explanatory mixed-methods procedures are used to explore gaps between research and culturally competent health intervention planning in Kalaallit Nunaat. The researcher introduces a novel stakeholder analysis system, which includes the Scale of Community Values and Perspectives (SCVP) and the Interview of Community Values and Perspectives (ICVP). The study describes how the SCVP and ICVP were developed and piloted using the principles of critical psychology and the dimensions of the RE-AIM framework. Piloting involved sixteen Inuit who were between the ages of 18 and 100 years old. The results of the study suggest that SCVP demonstrates reliability and construct validity, meeting the minimal standards required for validation. Furthermore, the SCVP/ICVP system met feasibility requirements for its inclusion in follow-up studies with a larger sample of Inuit participants. This study highlights the importance of internationalizing psychology by adapting Western methods to align with the scientific values of reliability, predictability, and confirmability across nations.