'Working relationships' across difference - a realist review of community engagement with malaria research.

ABSTRACT: Background: Community engagement (CE) is increasingly accepted as a critical aspect of health research, because of its potential to make research more ethical, relevant and well implemented. While CE activities linked to health research have proliferated in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), and are increasingly described in published literature, there is a lack of conceptual clarity around how engagement is understood to 'work', and the aims and purposes of engagement are varied and often not made explicit. Ultimately, the evidence base for engagement remains underdeveloped. Methods: To develop explanations for how and why CE with health research contributes to the pattern of outcomes observed in published literature , we conducted a realist review of CE with ma

SUBMITTER: Vincent R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10444998 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature