15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board

ABSTRACT IMPACT: This work will contribute to the understanding of challenges and best practices for navigating the research review process for collaborative community-engaged research. OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The aim of this scoping review is to comprehensively identify the challenges that researchers, c...

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Main Authors: Janet Pan, Deborah Onakomaiya, Holly Tan, Smiti Nadkarni, Timothy Roberts, Antoinette M. Schoenthaler, Nadia Islam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059866121006063/type/journal_article
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author Janet Pan
Deborah Onakomaiya
Holly Tan
Smiti Nadkarni
Timothy Roberts
Antoinette M. Schoenthaler
Nadia Islam
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description ABSTRACT IMPACT: This work will contribute to the understanding of challenges and best practices for navigating the research review process for collaborative community-engaged research. OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The aim of this scoping review is to comprehensively identify the challenges that researchers, community partners, and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) face, in order to develop best practices to guide future community-engaged research (CEnR). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Community-engaged research (CEnR) encompasses all research practices in which traditional researchers collaborate with community partners to identify health disparities that affect the community. CEnR aims to empower communities and prevent exploitative research practices on vulnerable populations. Though many goals of CEnR align with that of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to protect human research subjects from unethical harm, researchers and community members conducting CEnR are often met with challenges when getting research approval. The search strategy included all publications pertaining to challenges in IRB approval and process for studies in the spectrum in community-engaged research. Systematic searches in PubMed Central and PsycINFO were conducted. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The search strategy produced 748 publications from peer-reviewed journals. We included 118 publications that met our initial inclusion/exclusion criteria from the search strategy in our analysis. Preliminary results show that common challenges include lack understanding of the duo role of community members as researchers and participants, informed consent language barriers, and lack of understanding community-based participatory research. Best practices when working with the IRB include fostering an environment for open communication with the IRB early in the research process, understanding timeline constraints from both researcher and community agencies and supporting the role of community members as research staff. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF FINDINGS: Community-engaged research efforts are advantageous in empowering and providing agency for community members to address important health concerns within their communities. To prevent the exploitation of vulnerable and underserved populations, more research should engage in collaborative community-based partnerships.
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spelling doaj.art-2517c36d390646db826c557a9f220cdc2023-03-10T07:52:04ZengCambridge University PressJournal of Clinical and Translational Science2059-86612021-03-015797910.1017/cts.2021.60615296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review BoardJanet Pan0Deborah Onakomaiya1Holly Tan2Smiti Nadkarni3Timothy Roberts4Antoinette M. Schoenthaler5Nadia Islam6Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of MedicineDepartment of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of MedicineUCLA Fielding School of Public HealthDepartment of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of MedicineHealth Sciences Library, NYU Grossman School of MedicineDepartment of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of MedicineDepartment of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of MedicineABSTRACT IMPACT: This work will contribute to the understanding of challenges and best practices for navigating the research review process for collaborative community-engaged research. OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The aim of this scoping review is to comprehensively identify the challenges that researchers, community partners, and the Institutional Review Board (IRB) face, in order to develop best practices to guide future community-engaged research (CEnR). METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Community-engaged research (CEnR) encompasses all research practices in which traditional researchers collaborate with community partners to identify health disparities that affect the community. CEnR aims to empower communities and prevent exploitative research practices on vulnerable populations. Though many goals of CEnR align with that of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) to protect human research subjects from unethical harm, researchers and community members conducting CEnR are often met with challenges when getting research approval. The search strategy included all publications pertaining to challenges in IRB approval and process for studies in the spectrum in community-engaged research. Systematic searches in PubMed Central and PsycINFO were conducted. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: The search strategy produced 748 publications from peer-reviewed journals. We included 118 publications that met our initial inclusion/exclusion criteria from the search strategy in our analysis. Preliminary results show that common challenges include lack understanding of the duo role of community members as researchers and participants, informed consent language barriers, and lack of understanding community-based participatory research. Best practices when working with the IRB include fostering an environment for open communication with the IRB early in the research process, understanding timeline constraints from both researcher and community agencies and supporting the role of community members as research staff. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF FINDINGS: Community-engaged research efforts are advantageous in empowering and providing agency for community members to address important health concerns within their communities. To prevent the exploitation of vulnerable and underserved populations, more research should engage in collaborative community-based partnerships.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059866121006063/type/journal_article
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Smiti Nadkarni
Timothy Roberts
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15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
title 15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board
title_full 15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board
title_fullStr 15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board
title_full_unstemmed 15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board
title_short 15296 A scoping review of challenges to approve community-engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the Institutional Review Board
title_sort 15296 a scoping review of challenges to approve community engaged research proposals and best practices when working with the institutional review board
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