Training Needs Assessment in Research Ethics Evaluation Among Research Ethics Committee Members in Three African Countries: Cameroon, Mali and Tanzania

Ateudjieu, Jérôme; Williams, John R.; Hirtle, Marie; Baume, Cédric; Ikingura, Joyce; Niare, Alassane; Sprumont, Dominique

doi:10.1111/j.1471-8847.2009.00266.x

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“…Budgetary constraints, lack of training, expertise and lack of full time administrators have also been highlighted as major challenges to African RECs [7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. The findings of this survey revealed that the use of modern review technologies, can positively address the communication, storage, security and confidentiality issues as well as, cushion the RECs limited budgets by reducing their operational costs such as telephone, photocopying and protocol distribution costs.…”

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Enhancing the Efficiency and Quality of African Research Ethics Review Processes – Through an Automated Review Platform

Mokgatla¹,

Bahati²,

Jsselmuiden³

2017

J AIDS Clin Res

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BackgroundHealth research initiatives worldwide are growing in scope and complexity, particularly as they move into the developing world [1]. This changing cascade of biomedical research poses new challenges for research ethics committees (RECs) review efficiency and quality. The sheer amount of research now being conducted in Africa has resulted in an unprecedented increase in RECs' workload [2] and the growing trend of multi-centre trials complicate the traditional, institutionoriented oversight system. This places a severe burden on RECs, which have always operated under significant resource constraints [3]. Majority (93% of the mapped 169 RECs in 37 African countries) use complex paper based review systems [4], which have proven to be problematic in terms of providing comprehensive oversight and tracking of submitted research protocols, monitoring and evaluation, effective communication, data storage and poor continuity of work due to the high turnover of REC membership [5]. The ChallengeThe etiology of REC inefficiency is complex. REC members spend a great deal of time preparing REC applications, amendments, renewals, and reports. Poorly functioning review systems can lead to inefficiencies or long review timelines which ultimately lengthens the time to licensure for new medicines, vaccines and medical technologies [6].169 RECs are reported to be operational in 37 African countries, with great variability in skills, membership, capacity and resources [4]. Most of these RECs are facing substantial challenges, including limited financial and human resources, insufficient training and inadequate standard operational procedures (SOPs), and lack of modernised information management technologies [3]. One of the major bottlenecks for ethical clearance is the complex paper based review systems widely used by African RECs, which are unable to absorb significantly increased submission volumes [4]. To address the latter, the Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED), working with partners in Africa, designed an intervention to address the need to provide much faster ethical review of research: the RHInnO Ethics, a cloud-based management information system for RECs (http:// www.rhinno.net) [1]. Since its first rollout in 2012, no study has been conducted to evaluate the platform's impact, nor has any study been conducted to evaluate the technological needs of RECs in Africa, hence the motivation for this survey. MethodologyAn online questionnaire was used to collect both qualitative and quantitative data from the 8 African countries currently using RHInnO Ethics. Enhancing the Efficiency and Quality of African Research Ethics Review Processes -Through an Automated Review PlatformBoitumelo Mokgatla*, Prince Bahati and Carel I Jsselmuiden International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), Botswana AbstractBackground: The sheer amount of research being conducted in Africa, the under-resourced research ethics committees (RECs), and the lack of modern review technologies have resulted in unprecedented ethics review tim...

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Enhancing the Efficiency and Quality of African Research Ethics Review Processes – Through an Automated Review Platform

Mokgatla¹,

Bahati²,

Jsselmuiden³

2017

J AIDS Clin Res

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“…• necessidades de treinamento • O objetivo de uma ANT é identificar necessidades de treinamento expressas por lacunas de competências que impedem a caracterização de um desempenho no trabalho como excelente nos mais diversos contextos de atuação (Carlisle, Bhanugopan, & Fish, 2011;Trudeau, Ainscough, Trant, Starker, & Cousineau, 2010;Ajjawi, Thistlethwaite, Aslani, & Cooling, 2010;Akhtar-Danesh et al, 2010;Ateudjieu et al, 2010;Cofré et al, 2010).…”

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Necessidades De Treinamento: Uma Proposta De Avaliação Estratégica No Contexto De Empresas Juniores Brasileiras

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Abbad

Macedo

et al. 2015

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“…The literature on bioethics in Cameroon has focused primarily on philosophical discussions and opinions [3-9] and the few empirical studies that exist have centered on capacity building of RECs and members of RECs [10-12], while some have discussed ethics and Cameroon journals [13]. Worldwide, studies pertaining to the documentation of ethics approval and informed consent have been dominated by reviews of published journal articles [14-16] and similar studies had been described in Cameroon which reveal that authors of scientific journal articles of research carried out in Cameroon significantly failed to document research ethics approval and informed consent in their publications [17,18].…”

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Are students kidding with health research ethics? The case of HIV/AIDS research in Cameroon

Munung¹,

Tangwa²,

Che³

et al. 2012

BMC Med Ethics

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BackgroundUniversities in Cameroon are playing an active part in HIV/AIDS research and much of this research is carried out by students, usually for the purpose of a dissertation/thesis. Student theses/dissertations present research findings in a much more comprehensive manner and have been described as the stepping-stone of a budding scientist’s potential in becoming an independent researcher. It is therefore important to verify how students handle issues of research ethics.MethodTheses/dissertations on HIV/AIDS that described research studies involving the use of human research participants were screened to verify if research ethics approval and informed consent were obtained and documented. The contents of the consent forms were also qualitatively analyzed.ResultsOf 174 theses/dissertations on HIV, ethics approval was documented in 17 (9.77%) and informed consent in 77 (47.83%). Research ethics approval was first mentioned at all in 2002 and highly reported in the year 2007. Evidence of ethics approval was found for the first time in 2005 and informed consent first observed and evidenced in 1997. Ethics approval was mostly reported by students studying for an MD (14.01%) and was not reported in any Bachelors’ degree dissertation. Informed consent was also highly reported in MD theses (64.58%) followed by undergraduate theses (31.58%). Voluntary participation and potential benefits of the study were some of the common aspects dealt with in most of the consent forms. The right to discontinue participation in the study and management of residual samples were scarcely ever mentioned.ConclusionsOverall, and given the current state of the art of research ethics around the world, student-scientists in Cameroon would seem to be merely kidding with research ethics. It is thus essential that training in health research ethics (HRE) be incorporated in the curriculum of universities in Cameroon in order that the next generation of scientists may be better equipped with thorough knowledge and practice of HRE. This, we believe, would be one way of fighting the occurrence of research scandals, which have not yet abated significantly, especially those arising from negligence or inexcusable ignorance.

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Training Needs Assessment in Research Ethics Evaluation Among Research Ethics Committee Members in Three African Countries: Cameroon, Mali and Tanzania

Abstract: Although the majority of REC members in the targeted African countries had received training in ethics, they expressed a need for additional training. The results of this survey have been used to design a training program in research ethics evaluation that meets this need.

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Enhancing the Efficiency and Quality of African Research Ethics Review Processes – Through an Automated Review Platform

Enhancing the Efficiency and Quality of African Research Ethics Review Processes – Through an Automated Review Platform

Necessidades De Treinamento: Uma Proposta De Avaliação Estratégica No Contexto De Empresas Juniores Brasileiras

Are students kidding with health research ethics? The case of HIV/AIDS research in Cameroon

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