scholarly journals Research Stakeholders’ Views on Benefits and Challenges for Public Health Research Data Sharing in Kenya: The Importance of Trust and Social Relations

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. e0135545 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Jao ◽  
Francis Kombe ◽  
Salim Mwalukore ◽  
Susan Bull ◽  
Michael Parker ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer G. Denny ◽  
Blessing Silaigwana ◽  
Douglas Wassenaar ◽  
Susan Bull ◽  
Michael Parker

Author(s):  
Francisca Nordfalk

Public health research depends on access to population data. This article is a study of the practices and the work enabling data collection for public health research. In Denmark, a blood sample is taken from practically every single newborn baby through a national screening programme. These samples can be combined with other health data and used for research purposes without explicit consent from those giving the samples. With an ethnographic approach, I study the practices, the work and the workers of the Danish NDBS samples, and explore how newborn babies come to serve as an important national research resource. From these studies, I argue that the making of national research resources in this way is ‘mutual enablement’ of research data and care. The work of both health professionals and researchers mutually enables professional care and opportunities for collection of samples and data for research. It is through this mutual enablement of research data and care that newborn babies become a national research population.


Author(s):  
Samar Helou ◽  
Victoria Abou-Khalil ◽  
Elie El Helou ◽  
Ken Kiyono

Using an online survey, we examined the relationships between the perceived usefulness, sensitivity, and anonymity of personal health data and people’s willingness to share it with researchers. An analysis of 112 responses showed that people’s willingness and perceptions are related to the type of the data, their trust in the data’s anonymity, and their personal sociodemographic characteristics. In general, we found that people do not completely trust that their identities remain anonymous when sharing data anonymously with researchers. We also found that they are more willing to share personal health data with researchers if they perceive it as useful for public health research, not sensitive, and if they trust that their identity will remain anonymous after sharing it. We also found that people’s age, gender, occupation, and region of residence may be related to their perceptions regarding the sharing of personal health data.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Van Gaans ◽  
S Ahmed ◽  
K D'Onise ◽  
J Moyon ◽  
G Caughey ◽  
...  

Most patients with chronic disease are prescribed multiple medications, which are recorded in their personal health records. This is rich information for clinical public health researchers but also a challenge to analyse.  This paper describes the method that was undertaken within the Public Health Research Data Management System (PHReDMS) to map medication data retrieved from individual patient health records for population health researcher’s use.  The PHReDMS manages clinical, health service, community and survey research data within a secure web environment that allows for data sharing amongst researchers.  The PHReDMS is currently used by researchers to answer a broad range of questions, including monitoring of prescription patterns in different population groups and geographic areas with high incidence/prevalence of chronic renal, cardiovascular, metabolic and mental health issues.  In this paper, we present the general notion of abstraction network, a higher level network that sits above a terminology and offers compact and more easily understandable view of its content. We demonstrate the utilisation of abstraction network methodology to examine medication data from electronic medical records to allow a compact and more easily understandable view of its content.


2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Jao ◽  
Francis Kombe ◽  
Salim Mwalukore ◽  
Susan Bull ◽  
Michael Parker ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Amri ◽  
Christina Angelakis ◽  
Dilani Logan

Abstract Objective Through collating observations from various studies and complementing these findings with one author’s study, a detailed overview of the benefits and drawbacks of asynchronous email interviewing is provided. Through this overview, it is evident there is great potential for asynchronous email interviews in the broad field of health, particularly for studies drawing on expertise from participants in academia or professional settings, those across varied geographical settings (i.e. potential for global public health research), and/or in circumstances when face-to-face interactions are not possible (e.g. COVID-19). Results Benefits of asynchronous email interviewing and additional considerations for researchers are discussed around: (i) access transcending geographic location and during restricted face-to-face communications; (ii) feasibility and cost; (iii) sampling and inclusion of diverse participants; (iv) facilitating snowball sampling and increased transparency; (v) data collection with working professionals; (vi) anonymity; (vii) verification of participants; (viii) data quality and enhanced data accuracy; and (ix) overcoming language barriers. Similarly, potential drawbacks of asynchronous email interviews are also discussed with suggested remedies, which centre around: (i) time; (ii) participant verification and confidentiality; (iii) technology and sampling concerns; (iv) data quality and availability; and (v) need for enhanced clarity and precision.


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