A Scoping Review of Theoretical Lenses and Methodological Approaches in Indigenous Women’s Health and Well-Being Research in North America over the Past Two Decades

Tricia McGuire-Adams (), Janice Cindy Gaudet, Keira A. Loukes and Celeste Ferreira
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Tricia McGuire-Adams: Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada
Janice Cindy Gaudet: Campus Saint-Jean, University of Albert, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Keira A. Loukes: School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks & Tourism, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada
Celeste Ferreira: School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 8, 1-15

Abstract: Theoretical approaches influence research design, engagement, and outcomes. The relevance of critical theoretical and methodological approaches to Indigenous women’s health and well-being research has increased in the last decade. It is difficult to assess the ways in which theoretical lenses can effectively interrupt and challenge systemic erasure, ongoing harms, and deficit-based (ill-health-centered) approaches to Indigenous women’s health and well-being, a fact that is not broadly acknowledged. We conducted a scoping review to (a) map the type and frequency of critical theoretical lenses used by researchers focused on Indigenous women’s health and well-being in North America over the past two decades and (b) identify which topics tend to use which theoretical lens. We have conducted a scoping review to examine peer-reviewed articles from eight electronic databases. In the articles selected over 2000–2021, we found an increase in the use of community-based participatory research, decolonial lenses, and feminist lenses. Over the last decade, there has been a decrease in quantitative social science approaches. While a range of critical theoretical and methodological approaches are increasingly being applied, the use of cultural resurgence and Indigenous feminism in health research is not widespread.

Keywords: Indigenous women’s health and well-being; cultural resurgence; critical theory; Indigenous women’s wellness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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