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Jorge and Bernice. Thanks. Your points are very vital. The pre-knowledge from past experience in clinical trials and show of respect. Thanks
One of the ways is to avoid marginalization in the composition of CAB in the study community. Another one is having a mechanism of operation that every CAB member will understand and comply with. Training of CAB members as a dynamic thing is also important.
Hello colleagues, I actually wanted more information on the above subject matter to guide further enhance my community engagement activity. Thanks
Much has been said about CAB or CAG as an interface between the research team and the community. However, to function as an interface, there is a need to properly define their roles. viz – a viz, core function and oversight function, which should be guided by a global or regional goal, stratetgy and principles but with adoption based on the local situation of the clinical research sites for instance of the region as a whole. Issues of compensation or payment or re-imbursement or logistics need to be sorted out through meetings to reduce attrition and promote synergy between the member and the research team and between CAB and the community.
Bamidele
Hello everyone. I am happy to be a co-learner with you all. My name is Iwalokun Bamidele. I work at the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR). My current research trust is the survey of diarrhea, malnutrition, fever and their socio-demographic, environmental, human and animal determinants in 3 urban slums in Nigeria. This survey is a longitudinal one and it will involve zinc intervention trials. In as much as I have previously worked with communities, working with people living in a slum is quite different because of the micro-variation in the distribution of the limited infrastructures that exist in a slum.
I am highly expectant of the quantum of knowledge and skill I hope to acquire from this online course.
To engage a community for research, different strategies exist. One of them is by partnering with the community based organisations with track record for research or programme implementation. Another strategy is engaging the community leaders to act as agent of change. the CAB also works but there are challenges in some settings regarding the composition of this board and the life cycle of the members. So much so that it sometimes become a challenge in itself rather than the research. So in engaging the community, situational analysis regarding previous research activities and human resources of groups employed to drive such research works and their outcomes are essential
Bamidele
