Engaging with stakeholders for community-based health research in India: Lessons learnt challenges and opportunities

摘要

Stakeholders are individuals, organisations or communities who are responsible for, or affected by, the processes or outcome of the research [1]. Stakeholder engagement (SE) in health research has the potential to inform quality improvements by incorporating multiple perspectives of the stakeholders beyond the traditional research team [2]. Increasingly, funders are acknowledging the benefits of SE on research outcomes and mandating it on grant applications [2]. It can help to improve the health, knowledge and well-being of communities by decreasing the ambiguity surrounding research findings and increasing early acceptance of the research findings [3]. Early SE could help obtain funding and facilitate in reducing the gap between research to policy by creating research that is of benefit and interest to numerous stakeholders [4,5].