The Community Stroke Study was designed to raise the quality of life and improve the long-term rehabilitation outcomes of neurologically impaired stroke patients. This threeyear randomized clinical trial is based on a program that was developed by Valerie Eaton Griffith in Great Britain to help patients recover from stroke through the efforts of community volunteers(I-5). Although her program h...

This paper outlines the findings of a survey on trust, captured through attitude, experience, behaviour and expectation, of members in a Government run online support network. Overall, the results show that participants have high expectations for the behaviour of others in the community, expecting them to be trustworthy, helpful and supportive. There is a gap, however, between the respondents‟ ...

INTRODUCTION Clinical trials of new vaginal products require careful communication with participants about trial requirements. Most microbicide trials have been multi-site studies conducted among women in sub-Saharan Africa, where literacy levels and understanding of scientific methods differ from those designing and conducting the trials. Microbicide trials require women to insert objects in t...

In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of HIV is high among young people and it is of the utmost importance that they be recruited into vaccination trials. Since community members influence the willingness of young people to participate in the vaccination trials, ascertaining their opinions is essential to overcoming barriers to such participation. Here, in seven focus group discussions we explored ...

BACKGROUND Systematic treatment of all individuals living in the same compound of a clinical malaria case may clear asymptomatic infections and possibly reduce malaria transmission, where this is focal. High and sustained coverage is extremely important and requires active community engagement. This study explores a community-based approach to treating malaria case contacts. METHODS/DESIGN Th...

BACKGROUND Cognitive mapping is a participatory research methodology that documents, in visual form, a construct of the local environment in which people live and work. We adapted this method to provide detailed data about study locales to inform recruitment and retention strategies for HIV prevention community based clinical trials. METHODS Four cognitive mapping studies were undertaken betw...