Community engagement during COVID: A field report from seven CTSAs.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Prior to the COVID pandemic, many CTSAs employed face-to-face interactions to conduct most of their community engagement (CE) activities. During the COVID pandemic, such engagement had to be curtailed and alternatives needed to be formulated. In addition, Community Engaged Research (CEnR) teams refocused their efforts to address this public health crisis.

Methods

To obtain a general understanding of how CTSAs have conducted CE and CEnR during the COVID pandemic, we invited seven CTSA CE leaders to provide brief field reports of their activities during the pandemic. This included how their approaches to CE and CEnR were modified during the COVID-19 pandemic and key lessons learned.

Results

We found that despite numerous challenges, all seven CTSAs CE cores

SUBMITTER: Marsh EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8185415 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature