This lifescape was generated as a demonstration with volunteer of the Life Story Board in May 2014 to the Community Advisory Committee (CAC), in the exploratory stage of the research project by Participatory Research in Ottawa: Understanding Drugs (PROUD).
A recovered injection drug user recounted her first experience with addiction, 40 years ago when she was 11 years old with her family of origin in rural Newfoundland.
The LSB tool was adopted as the interview modality and the graphics adapted to the context of persons who inject drugs PWID and harm reduction efforts. The interview protocol involved peer interviewer (former users on methadone maintenance) in pairs- as interviewer and as storyboarder as seen in these photos.
The process and findings of the CIHR funded project was published in two papers.
“Expanding conceptualizations of harm reduction: results from a qualitative community-based participatory research study with people who inject drugs” L. M. Boucher, Z. Marshall, A. Martin, K. Larose-Hébert, J. V. Flynn, C. Lalonde, D. Pineau, J. Bigelow, T. Rose, R. Chase, R. Boyd, M. Tyndall and C. Kendall PDF;
John V. Flynn, Claire E. Kendall, Lisa M. Boucher, Michael L. Fitzgerald, Katharine Larose-Hébert, Alana Martin, Christine Lalonde, Dave Pineau,
Jenn Bigelow, Tiffany Rose, Rob Boyd, Mark Tyndall & Zack Marshall, “It’s Like the Pieces of a Puzzle That You Know”: Research Interviews With People Who Inject Drugs Using the Vidaview Life Story Board Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (FQS) Volume 21, No. 3, Art. 5 – September 2020 PDF