Engaging communities to strengthen research ethics in low-income settings: selection and perceptions of members of a network of representatives in coastal Kenya.

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There is wide agreement that community engagement is important for many research types and settings, often including interaction with 'representatives' of communities. There is relatively little published experience of community engagement in international research settings, with available information focusing on Community Advisory Boards or Groups (CAB/CAGs), or variants of these, where CAB/G members often advise researchers on behalf of the communities they represent. In this paper we descr...

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Authors: Kamuya, D; Marsh, V; Kombe, F; Geissler, P; Molyneux, S

• Journal: Developing world bioethics
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 10-20
• Publication date: 2013-04-01
• DOI: 10.1111/dewb.12014
• EISSN: 1471-8847
• ISSN: 1471-8731
• Language: English
• Keywords: Adolescent; Adult; Community-Based Participatory Research; Aged; Conflict of Interest; Female; Poverty; Informed Consent; Moral Obligations; Kenya; International Cooperation; Humans; Conflict (Psychology); Researcher-Subject Relations; Interdisciplinary Communication; Social Environment; Middle Aged; Male; Clinical Trials as Topic; Research Personnel; Social Perception