Taking research into the community

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Authors

Jennifer Preston¹ , Sammy Ainsworth¹ , Gaby Seddon²

1. NIHR Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility
2. Alder Hey Paediatric Medicines Research Unit

Conference / event

UKCRF Network Conference, July 2023 (Nottingham, United Kingdom)

Poster summary

Health and research literacy amongst patients and the public act as a barrier to research participation, especially in paediatric clinical trials. To tackle this issue it is so important to establish long-lasting community relationships with children, young people, and families to open up a dialogue about research. We achieved this by setting up a Science Club in a local youth centre as part of our wider outreach and education programme.

Keywords

Children, Young people, Science, Medicine, Health, Research

Research areas

Education, Medicine

References

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Funding

1. National Institute for Health Research Alder Hey Clinical Research Facility

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Additional information

Competing interests

No competing interests were disclosed.

Data availability statement

Data sharing not applicable to this poster as no datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.

Creative Commons license

Copyright © 2023 Preston et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.