Exploring researchers' experiences of working with a researcher-driven, population-specific community advisory board in a South African schizophrenia genomics study

BMC Medical Ethics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Campbell, Megan M ^a   Susser, Ezra ^b   De Vries, Jantina ^c   Baldinger, Adam ^a   Sibeko, Goodman ^a   Mndini, Michael M ^a   Mqulwana, Sibonile G ^a   Ntola, Odwa A ^a   Ramesar, Raj S ^c   Stein, Dan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community advisory board; Community engagement; Genomics research; Schizophrenia; Xhosa

Indexed keywords

ADVISORY COMMITTEE; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONHOOD; PERSONNEL; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHICS, RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONHOOD; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84933520691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12910-015-0037-5     Document Type: Article

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