Scoping review of community health participatory research projects in Ghana.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community health participation is an essential tool in health research and management where community members, researchers and other relevant stakeholders contribute to the decision-making processes. Though community participation processes can be complex and challenging, evidence from previous studies have reported significant value of engaging with community in community health projects.

Objective

To identify the nature and extent of community involvement in community health participatory research (CHPR) projects in Ghana and draw lessons for participatory design of a new project on diabetes intervention in Accra called the Contextual Awareness Response and Evaluation (CARE) diabetes project.

Methods

A scoping review of relevant publications on CHPR proje

SUBMITTER: Kretchy IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677985 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature