Musesengwa Rosemary, Chimbari Moses J
College of Health Sciences, 1st Floor Desmond Clarence Building Howard College, University of KZN, Durban 4041, South Africa.
College of Health Sciences, 1st Floor Desmond Clarence Building Howard College, University of KZN, Durban 4041, South Africa.
Acta Trop. 2017 Nov;175:20-30. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2016.03.021. Epub 2016 Mar 19.
Community Engagement (CE) is intended to enhance the participation of community stakeholders in research. CE is usually mentioned in publications as researchers discuss how they carried out community entry, consent and retained study participants but the actual CE activities are not always well documented. This paper reviews CE strategies employed in health research in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe with reference to the development of a CE strategy for a multi-centre study to be conducted in these countries. The search was conducted using JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator), Google Scholar and PubMed with known institutions and researchers providing context-specific material. The final synthesis includes 35 publications, 2 reports and 2 abstracts. There is evidence of CE being practiced in health research and eight closely related CE strategies were revealed. We conclude that since communities are heterogeneous and unique, CE activities will not have similar results in different settings. Even though there was insufficient evidence to determine which CE strategy is most effective, the review provides sufficient information to develop a CE strategy for a multi-centre study using the various strategies and activities described.
社区参与（CE）旨在提高社区利益相关者对研究的参与度。在研究人员讨论他们如何开展社区进入、同意和保留研究参与者的过程中，CE通常会在出版物中被提及，但实际的CE活动记录往往并不完善。本文回顾了博茨瓦纳、南非和津巴布韦在健康研究中采用的CE策略，并参考了一项将在这些国家开展的多中心研究的CE策略制定情况。搜索使用了JANE（期刊/作者名称估计器）、谷歌学术和PubMed，并结合已知机构和研究人员提供的特定背景材料。最终的综述包括35篇出版物、2份报告和2篇摘要。有证据表明CE在健康研究中得到了实践，并揭示了8种密切相关的CE策略。我们得出结论，由于社区是异质且独特的，CE活动在不同环境中不会产生相似的结果。尽管没有足够的证据来确定哪种CE策略最有效，但该综述提供了足够的信息，以便利用所描述的各种策略和活动为多中心研究制定CE策略。
