Evaluating community deliberations about health research priorities.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Engaging underrepresented communities in health research priority setting could make the scientific agenda more equitable and more responsive to their needs.

Objective

Evaluate democratic deliberations engaging minority and underserved communities in setting health research priorities.

Methods

Participants from underrepresented communities throughout Michigan (47 groups, n = 519) engaged in structured deliberations about health research priorities in professionally facilitated groups. We evaluated some aspects of the structure, process, and outcomes of deliberations, including representation, equality of participation, participants' views of deliberations, and the impact of group deliberations on individual participants' knowledge, attitudes, and points of vie

SUBMITTER: Goold SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6737773 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature