COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH (COPAR)

OBJECTIVES OF COPAR

Patterns to be followed:

1. Organize people
2. Mobilize people
3. Work with people
4. Educate people
• Knowledge
• Attitude
• Skills

PHASES OF COPAR

1. Preparatory
2. Organizing
3. Mobilizing
4. Educating
5. Collaborating
6. Phase Out

1. PREPARATORY PHASE
1. Area of Selection
• It should be DOPE Community: Depressed, Oppressed, Poor & Exploited, a new criteria for community organization
• “Old Criteria”→ it must be a virgin community=meaning no agency has gone there.
• This is a dangerous situation that’s why RA 7305: Magna Carta for Public Workers was provided-a PHN is to receive a hazard pay of 20-25% of monthly salary.
2. Entry: the 1st thing to do upon entering the community is to have a courtesy call with the Barangay
3. Integration/Immersion
• Immersion is imbibing the life situation/ condition of the community by living, eating & sleeping with the family to be able to understand their situation
• It requires 2 Qualities of PHN:
• Empathy
• Sympathy (Integration)
4. Community Study: Diagnosis of Community-COPAR
• Makes use of the Nursing Process/Problem Solving Approach
• Prioritized which among the problems identified is to be attended 1st like in nature, magnitude, modifiability, preventive potential, salience
• PRIORITIZATION OF COMMUNITY PROBLEMS
• Indicators of Health Status/Condition:
• Fertility: ↑ CBR=community is overpopulated=HS
• Morbidity: IR (new cases) & PR (old cases)=HS
• Mortality: Deaths like children dying of pneumonia=HS
• Health Resource(s):
• 5 M’s-Manpower/Man, money, machinery, material & methods
• (+) available facilities-Hospital/Clinic, mode of transportation, market, school & movie houses for recreation
• Health Related: Categories according to 5 Aspects of Man=PEMSS
• P hysical, P hysiological, P sychological
• E motional
• M ental
• S ocial
• S piritual
2. ORGANIZING PHASE
• Choosing Potential Community Leaders
• Core Group Formation
• Community Assembly: Community Organizing Participatory Action


• Research (COPAR)
• Attend the assembly of the family/families
• Families in the community should be represented, any family members can represent his/her family as long as he/ she is a RESPONSIBLE (one who also can comprehend) member of that family.
• Barangay Captain/Chairman need not necessary be the leader. He can recommend
3. MOBILIZATION PHASE
• Mobilization
• let the members of the community do the work. PHN should only SUPERVISE
4. HEALTH EDUCATION
• Adjust on the level of understanding of the community
• Return demonstration is the best way of teaching
• Focus on the KSA
• Respect of the custom and tradition
5. COLLABORATING
6. PHASE OUT