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Clinical research stakeholders’ experiences of clinical research during COVID-19: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic created a complex high-risk clinical research environment with clinical research activities significantly impacted. Clinical research stakeholders adapted rapidly to new clinical practices; PPE, infection control policies, all while engaging with a more unwell patie...

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Autores principales: FitzGerald, Christine, Vaughan-Witts, Aoife, Barry, Louise, Corey, Gillian, Leahy, Fiona, Egan, Siobhán, Conway, Elaine, O’Connor, Margaret, Galvin, Rose
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37777795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06534-5
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author FitzGerald, Christine
Vaughan-Witts, Aoife
Barry, Louise
Corey, Gillian
Leahy, Fiona
Egan, Siobhán
Conway, Elaine
O’Connor, Margaret
Galvin, Rose
author_facet FitzGerald, Christine
Vaughan-Witts, Aoife
Barry, Louise
Corey, Gillian
Leahy, Fiona
Egan, Siobhán
Conway, Elaine
O’Connor, Margaret
Galvin, Rose
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description BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic created a complex high-risk clinical research environment with clinical research activities significantly impacted. Clinical research stakeholders adapted rapidly to new clinical practices; PPE, infection control policies, all while engaging with a more unwell patient demographic. The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of conducting clinical research during COVID-19 with clinical research stakeholders. METHODS: This qualitative study of semi-structured interviews conducted with clinical research stakeholders in an acute Hospital setting across a variety of disciplines; Consultant Geriatrician, Clinical Research Nurse, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy. Interviews were fully transcribed prior to reflexive thematic analysis. NVivo software was used to support data management and analysis. RESULTS: Three main themes were produced; (1) The challenging COVID-19 clinical research landscape, (2) COVID-19 clinical research communication barriers, and (3) Adaptations and learnings from clinical research during COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: This study explored the experiences of conducting clinical research during COVID-19 with clinical research stakeholders examining challenges faced and adaptations required. The findings inform, equip and support clinical research stakeholders in the event of future adverse public health events. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06534-5.
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spelling pubmed-105441122023-10-03 Clinical research stakeholders’ experiences of clinical research during COVID-19: a qualitative study FitzGerald, Christine Vaughan-Witts, Aoife Barry, Louise Corey, Gillian Leahy, Fiona Egan, Siobhán Conway, Elaine O’Connor, Margaret Galvin, Rose BMC Res Notes Research Note BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic created a complex high-risk clinical research environment with clinical research activities significantly impacted. Clinical research stakeholders adapted rapidly to new clinical practices; PPE, infection control policies, all while engaging with a more unwell patient demographic. The aim of this study is to explore the experiences of conducting clinical research during COVID-19 with clinical research stakeholders. METHODS: This qualitative study of semi-structured interviews conducted with clinical research stakeholders in an acute Hospital setting across a variety of disciplines; Consultant Geriatrician, Clinical Research Nurse, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy. Interviews were fully transcribed prior to reflexive thematic analysis. NVivo software was used to support data management and analysis. RESULTS: Three main themes were produced; (1) The challenging COVID-19 clinical research landscape, (2) COVID-19 clinical research communication barriers, and (3) Adaptations and learnings from clinical research during COVID-19. CONCLUSIONS: This study explored the experiences of conducting clinical research during COVID-19 with clinical research stakeholders examining challenges faced and adaptations required. The findings inform, equip and support clinical research stakeholders in the event of future adverse public health events. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-023-06534-5. BioMed Central 2023-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10544112/ /pubmed/37777795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06534-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Vaughan-Witts, Aoife
Barry, Louise
Corey, Gillian
Leahy, Fiona
Egan, Siobhán
Conway, Elaine
O’Connor, Margaret
Galvin, Rose
Clinical research stakeholders’ experiences of clinical research during COVID-19: a qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10544112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37777795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-023-06534-5
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