Using a People-Centred Participatory Approach to Explore Community and Stakeholders’ Perceptions to Enable Research Teams to Design Plans that Meet Community Needs

Abstract

Background and Challenges to Implementation: Community stakeholders’ perceptions can influence community members participation in clinical research trials or support the research. It is for this reason that research teams need to have a deep understanding of the communities they research. The Aurum Klerksdorp CRS engages in a people-centred participatory process with the community and stakeholders before engaging in active recruitment activities.