Process of community engagement in a mixed model research: A success story from Kolkata India
Journal Title: The Journal of Community Health Management - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Community engagement in relation to HIVAIDS has so often been a topic of discussion in India substantial involvement of the community has rarely been a mainstream practice The general concept of community engagement is letting research projects achieve success by involving the participants directly into the research work and implementing the results and the inferences obtained from those projects for the betterment of participants We tried our level best to put this theory in practice at Medical College and Hospital Kolkata India during year 20152016 Apart from some teething problems that cropped up at the initial stage of the study which was difficult and time taking to solve The advantages of community involvement as the experience showed outweighed such minor difficulties The final developed model for community engagement among marginalized population was successful and we can recommend this model for robust data collection and interpretation expecting a fruitful end resultKeywords HIVAIDS Community engagement Community involvement
Authors and Affiliations
Payel Talukdar, Ananya Bhowmik, Sukriti Rana, Kalpana Datta, Arunansu Talukdar
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- DOI 10.18231/2394-2738.2018.0031
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