Clinical Reseach Department, Brain Research Africa Initiative, Yaounde, Cameroon
Department of programs, Cameroon National Association for Family Welfare (CAMNAFAW), Yaounde, Cameroon.
BMJ Open. 2022 May 11;12(5):e057922. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057922.
Meaningful community engagement (CE) is increasingly being considered the major determinant of successful research, innovation and intervention uptake. Community leaders, policy makers and funders have expressed the need to engage communities in research. CE in research empowers the host community to participate in addressing its own health needs and health disparities while ensuring that researchers understand community priorities. Thus, appropriate CE opens a unique way to promote coproduction, coimplementation and coevaluation, which may strengthen both the sense of inclusion, ownership and the effectiveness of the research life-cycle. The aim of this review is to synthesise available evidence on how to engage communities in research in a gender-sensitive, ethical, culture-appropriate and sustainable way in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This protocol has been developed following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols and follows the guidance provided by the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews.
A combination of key text words and medical subject headings such as 'Community Engagement' or 'Community Involvement' will be used to search 009 databases for all literature published between 1 January 2000 and 31 July 2021. Citations retrieved from database searches will be exported into EndNote X9 to remove duplicate citations and imported into Rayyan QCRI for screening. Two independent reviewers will conduct the screening and data extraction process. Disagreements between review authors will be resolved through discussions, consensus a third reviewer serving as a tiebreaker. The risk of bias will be assessed using the 10-item Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Checklist for Qualitative Research. The three-staged process described by Thomas and Harden will be used for the thematic and narrative synthesis of findings.
This is a systematic review which uses already collected data thus ethical approval not required. Findings will be published in an open access peer-reviewed journal and presented in relevant conferences and workshops.
This protocol has been submitted for registration in PROSPERO and has been published under registration number CRD42021282503 .
有意义的社区参与（CE）越来越被认为是成功研究、创新和干预措施实施的主要决定因素。社区领导、政策制定者和资助者表示需要让社区参与研究。CE 使研究所在解决自身健康需求和健康差距的同时，使所在社区有能力参与其中，并确保研究人员了解社区的优先事项。因此，适当的 CE 为促进共同创作、共同实施和共同评估开辟了一条独特的途径，这可能会增强包容性、所有权意识，并增强研究生命周期的有效性。本综述的目的是综合现有证据，说明如何以对性别敏感、符合伦理、文化适宜和可持续的方式在撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）社区中开展研究。该方案是按照系统评价和荟萃分析方案的首选报告项目制定的，并遵循 Cochrane 系统评价手册提供的指导。
将使用关键文本词和医学主题词，如“社区参与”或“社区参与”，从 2000 年 1 月 1 日至 2021 年 7 月 31 日，对 009 个数据库中的所有文献进行搜索。从数据库搜索中检索的引文将被导出到 EndNote X9 以去除重复引文，并导入 Rayyan QCRI 进行筛选。两名独立的审查员将进行筛选和数据提取过程。如果出现审查作者之间的分歧，将通过讨论、共识或第三名审查员作为决胜者来解决。将使用 Joanna Briggs 研究所的 10 项定性研究批判性评价清单评估偏倚风险。托马斯和哈登描述的三阶段过程将用于对研究结果进行主题和叙述性综合。
这是一项系统评价，使用的是已经收集的数据，因此不需要伦理批准。研究结果将发表在开放获取的同行评议期刊上，并在相关会议和研讨会上展示。
PROSPERO 注册号：本方案已提交 PROSPERO 注册，并已在注册号 CRD42021282503 下发表。
