Regulation of community advisory boards during conduct of clinical trials in Uganda: a qualitative study involving stakeholders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community advisory structures such as Community Advisory Boards (CABs) play an important role of helping researchers to better understand the community at each phase of the clinical trial. CABs can be a source of accurate information on the community, its perception of proposed research and may identify factors that make community members vulnerable to the problem under investigation. Although CABs help to build mutually beneficial relationships between the researcher(s) and the communities in which the clinical trial is being implemented, effective engagement would require ethical guidance and regulatory oversight. The study assessed the stakeholders' perspectives regarding the regulatory oversight of CABs in Uganda.

Methods

This was an exploratory study employin

SUBMITTER: Mijumbi AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9899660 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature