Scoping study stages | Key milestones reached | Two-Eyed seeing contribution |
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Base Stage: Creating a shared space for teamwork. | •Grounded selves in culture through active participation in ceremony. | •Exposed to different ways of knowing (Indigenous and Western) through immersion in cultural experiences and an understanding of team science. |
•Developed research principles for working together. | ||
•Ensured the scoping team was balanced with a combination of Western and Indigenous thinkers, comfortable with the concept of spiritual wellness and able to create a shared space to converse and exchange knowledge. | ||
•Formed an interdisciplinary, inter-professional and intercultural scoping study of 11 team members. | ||
Stage #1: Identifying the research question. | •Research question established with an Indigenous lens: “What cultural interventions have been used to treat addictions in Indigenous populations and how effective are they?” | •Research question formulated through integrating Indigenous knowledge shared at initial full team meeting, with Western understanding of quality of evidence. |
•Guided by full team’s research principles—holistic research. | ||
•Supplementary objectives considered Western concepts of quality. | ||
Stage #2: Identifying relevant studies found in published articles, papers and reports. |
| •Applied an Indigenously-led perspective and Western-based vehicle to systematically search and screen the literature. |
Stage #3: Study selection. | •Three rounds of relevancy testing. | •Influenced the switch from systematic review to scoping study to ensure openness to Indigenous context-dependent research as well as Western methods-controlled studies. |
•3,908 scientific articles and 610 grey literature reviewed. | ||
•Final selection: 19 studies. | ||
Stage #4: Charting the data. | •Extraction form developed, piloted and applied. | •Used Western and Indigenous criteria to label and extract data. |
Stage #5: Collating, summarizing and reporting. | •Narrative summaries and tables produced of descriptive and thematic information. | •Blended Western data and Indigenous knowledge. |
Stage #6: Consultation with stakeholders. | •Meeting with Ad Hoc Review Group to further interpret and synthesize information. | •Synthesized Indigenous and Western knowledge from multiple lines of evidence to inform instrument development. |