1)During research process, we also need to prepare to recruit potential participants in the research, who would meet inclusion criteria of the study with less cost and less time that would be spend to get eligible participants. once stakeholders are well identified, recruitment and retention of participants would be easier. To achieve this, we need to involve stake holders and it is important to identify the best stakeholders who is respected in the community, who will facilitate the researchers to get all regulatory approvals process etc. Stake holders are the people that community listen to, so they would help researchers to explain the research mission, objectives and strategies.
2) For the research team to understand the value of stakeholders, I would take an example of my own country, which is basically, many communities are still research naïve, we do not have many clinical research around, we are only 2 sites doing clinical research, it is understandable that, even some of our colleagues would not really understand the value of stakeholders, until they had been experiencing the issues such, rumors in the community, getting regulatory papers without any problem, helping in dealing with media if necessary, getting eligible participants without a lot of difficulties, etc. through the stakeholders collaboration and commitment of helping researchers to reach their objectives, the research team really acknowledge the value them.
