Community sensitization and decision‐making for trial participation: A mixed‐methods study from The Gambia

摘要

BackgroundEnsuring individual free and informed decision‐making for research participation is challenging. It is thought that preliminarily informing communities through ‘community sensitization’ procedures may improve individual decision‐making. This study set out to assess the relevance of community sensitization for individual decision‐making in research participation in rural Gambia.