Factors influencing decisions about whether to participate in health research by people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds: a realist review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop and refine a programme theory that explains factors that influence decisions to take part in health research by people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Design

Realist review following a sequence of five steps: (a) scoping search and identification of programme theory; (b) evidence searching; (c) critical appraisal and data extraction; (d) organisation of evidence and (e) refinement of programme theory.

Eligibility criteria

Documents (including peer-reviewed articles, grey literature, websites, reports and conference papers) either full text, or a section of relevance to the overarching research question were included.

Data sources

EMBASE, Medline, Web of Science, Psych Info, Google and Google Scholar were searched iteratively bet

SUBMITTER: Hoverd EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121482 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature