MCR: Open-Source Software to Automate Compilation of Health Study Report-Back.

ABSTRACT: Sharing individualized results with health study participants, a practice we and others refer to as "report-back," ensures participant access to exposure and health information and may promote health equity. However, the practice of report-back and the content shared is often limited by the time-intensive process of personalizing reports. Software tools that automate creation of individualized reports have been built for specific studies, but are largely not open-source or broadly modifiable. We created an open-source and generalizable tool, called the Macro for the Compilation of Report-backs (MCR), to automate compilation of health study reports. We piloted MCR in two environmental exposure studies in Massachusetts, USA, and interviewed research team members (n = 7) about the impact of M

SUBMITTER: Polka E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8201126 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature