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• Participatory research of social issues: practical experience from a research project on homelessness

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  Katalin Gyongyosi

  Gyula Balog

  Marta Erdoshegyi

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  This article is an account of our practical research and cooperation experience from a
  participatory research project on homelessness and psychosocial disability carried out in a
  Hungarian university context, by a student and two experts by experience in a researcher role.
  We argue for the involvement of disadvantaged people using social services in research related
  to disadvantaged people and social services, highlighting the advantages and challenges of this
  kind of research based on our experience. Finally, we formulate practical recommendations that
  migh be useful for beginners – like we used to be – in participatory research in this field.

• Quality of life, disability of people living with psychiatric diagnosis

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  Borbála Bányai

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  21

  The paper aims at demonstrating the quality of life of the people living with psychiatic diagnosis.
  I used the data stemming from the standard and specific module (Social Inequalities in Health
  Quality) of the European Social Survey to present the quality of life of the disabled persons. I
  applied qualtitative methodology to investigate specifities of life course in case of people living
  with psychiatric diagnosis. My results suggest that people defining themselves as ’disabled’
  differ from non-hampered population first of all in the indicators of emotional and physical
  subjective well-being. According to the narrative interviews the quality of life of people living
  with psychiatric diagnose is largely influenced by their adaptive and coping strategies aiming to
  preserve the balance of their mental status.