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| Title |
A qualitative study using traditional community assemblies to investigate community perspectives on informed consent and research participation in western Kenya
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-13-23 |
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| Authors |
Rachel Vreeman, Eunice Kamaara, Allan Kamanda, David Ayuku, Winstone Nyandiko, Lukoye Atwoli, Samuel Ayaya, Peter Gisore, Michael Scanlon, Paula Braitstein |
| Abstract |
International collaborators face challenges in the design and implementation of ethical biomedical research. Evaluating community understanding of research and processes like informed consent may enable researchers to better protect research participants in a particular setting; however, there exist few studies examining community perspectives in health research, particularly in resource-limited settings, or strategies for engaging the community in research processes. Our goal was to inform ethical research practice in a biomedical research setting in western Kenya and similar resource-limited settings. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 4 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 3 | 75% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 25% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 122 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Sierra Leone | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 120 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 30 | 25% |
| Researcher | 21 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 16% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 5% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 23 | 19% |
| Unknown | 16 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 28% |
| Social Sciences | 23 | 19% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 15 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 17 | 14% |
| Unknown | 20 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 September 2014.
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#2,106,516
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Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#223
of 988 outputs
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#14,699
of 171,685 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#3
of 8 outputs
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