| dc.description.abstract | Any research organization's study has solely depended on community's full participation
for both quantity and quality data collection which are normally used for analysis. The purpose
of this study was to investigate the determinants of community's participation in clinical trials
conducted by Center for Diseases Control and Prevention in Karemo Division in Western Kenya.
In the world, participation in clinical trials have been found to depend on a number of
determinants such as demographics characteristics of the community, socio-economic status of
the community, patient's trust in health care provider, information to the community and
community's perception among others. The study had the following objectives: To determine the
level at which community's demographic characteristics influence community's participation in
Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention clinical trials, to determine the extent at which
socio-economic status of the community influence their participation in Centers for Diseases
Control and Prevention clinical trials, to examine how patient's trust in health care provider
influence community's participation in Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention clinical
trials, to investigate information as an influence on community's participation in Centers for
Diseases Control and Prevention clinical trials and finally to explore community's perception as
an influence on community's participation in Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
clinical trials. The research questions were: How do demographic characteristics of the
community influence community's participation in Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
clinical trials? To what extent does socio-economic status of the community determine
participation in Centers for Diseases Con!~~~land Prevention clinical trials? How do patient's
trusts in health care provider determine'cemmunity's participation in Centers for Diseases
Control and Prevention clinical trials research? How is information a determinant on
community's participation in Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention? How does perception
determine community's participation in Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention clinical
trials? In the significance of the study, it is hoped that the findings shall be of use to both Centers
for Diseases Control and the community in enhancing community's participation in clinical
trials. The theory that the study was anchored on is the theory of planned behavior. Descriptive
(quantitative) survey research design was used, the target population was parents from Karemo
Division and the sample size was 379 participants, The sample selection was by use of simple
random sampling where 3600 names were fed into the computer and excel used to select the first
364 participants as 15 were Centers for Diseases Control staffs where purposive sampling was
employed for they were few in number. The study used questionnaires to collect data through
face-to-face interviews and by self administration by the respondents and these data was entered
and analyzed using SPSS for Windows version 12.0 to generate frequencies and percentages.
The analyzed data was interpreted and discussed. Through the findings, the study concluded that
majority of participants were married primary and secondary school leavers. The study did
recommend that more emphasis -need to be put on health education in partnership with the
ministry of health to religions such as Legio Maria on health seeking behavior. The study
suggested the following areas for further studies: Need for a comparative study to look at
determinants of community's participation in Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
epidemiological studies and community's participation in International Emerging Infectious
diseases. | en |
