OVERALL BENEFITS TO RESEARCH INVESTIGATORS: HIGHLIGHTS
It is critical that research is patient/community-centered, lay-friendly, equitable, and feasible. Our consultations ensure that these topics are addressed. Benefits to investigators include:
- Build community trust and meaningful relationships
- Strategic engagement, recruitment, and retention planning that incorporates health equity and diversity as foundational principles
- Community benefit, value, and role is recognized by the research and healthcare enterprise
- Direct access to CTSI community-engaged research experts and stakeholders from various settings, without the complexity of scheduling multiple meetings
- Identify and build relationships with community partners
- Identify potential patient or community partners to enhance research development, conduct, implementation, and dissemination
- Address current and potential recruitment and retention roadblocks and challenges
- Assessment of feasibility and appropriateness or ethical perspective of the research project for patients or various community populations (e.g., underrepresented or underserved populations)
- Enhance participation of hard-to-reach populations
- Social marketing and communications planning
- Direct input or feedback on cultural and linguistic appropriateness/literacy level of research documents (e.g., recruitment materials, consent documents, surveys, web content, etc.)
- Collaborate on strategies to disseminate research results in community settings
- Effective protocol design and development options (minimizing the burdens of participation with a feasible schedule of events and eligibility criteria)
BENEFITS TO COMMUNITY:
The CTSI Recruitment and Retention Studio not only benefits research investigators and their teams but also allows community members to participate as equal partners in the Mutually Learning Tri-lateral Ecosystem (research enterprise, community, healthcare system). Community benefits include:
- Increase community trust and understanding of clinical and translational research(C&TR)
- Increase community ownership and empowerment in C&TR
- Community ability to enhance or positively impact the C&TR research process
- Community health benefit, value, role and responsibility are recognized by the research and healthcare enterprise
- The ‘voice’ of the community is heard and at the forefront and throughout the C&TR research process
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access—participation in C&TR
- Opportunities for community to initiate C&TR