Managing community engagement in research in Uganda: insights from practices in HIV/AIDS research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community engagement (CE) in research is valuable for instrumental and intrinsic reasons. Despite existing guidance on how to ensure meaningful CE, much of what it takes to achieve this goal differs across settings. Considering the emerging trend towards mandating CE in many research studies, this study aimed at documenting how CE is conceptualized and implemented, and then providing context-specific guidance on how researchers and research regulators in Uganda could think about and manage CE in research.

Methods

We conducted qualitative interviews and focus group discussions involving forty-one respondents who were experienced in HIV/AIDS biomedical research involving CE. Thirty-eight of these were directly or indirectly associated with Uganda's leading research

SUBMITTER: Barugahare J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9199168 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature