Experiences of sharing results of community based serosurvey with participants in a district of Maharashtra, India.

ABSTRACT: A growing number of organisations, including medical associations, recommend that research subjects should be given the option of being informed about the general outcome and results of the study. We recently completed a study involving nine serosurveys from 2018 to 2020 in five districts of India among three age groups (children 9 months to < 5 years; 5 to < 15 years of age, and women 15 to < 50 years of age before and after the measles and rubella (MR) vaccination campaigns). In Palghar district of Maharashtra all individuals in 30 selected clusters were enumerated, and 13 individuals per age group were randomly sampled. We established the procedures to return the results to the respondents for each stage of the survey. Of the 1,166 individuals selected for the measles and rubella serosu

SUBMITTER: Salvi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352079 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature