Strategies to foster community engagement for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review protocol.

Autor:	Issahaku GR; School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana gyesi2g3@gmail.com.; Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale, Ghana., Fischer HT; Institute for Virology, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Appiah-Brempong E; Department of Health Promotion and Disability Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana., Opoku D; School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.; Health Care Management, Technische Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Hanefeld J; Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	BMJ open [BMJ Open] 2024 Jun 05; Vol. 14 (6), pp. e082757. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jun 05.
DOI:	10.1136/bmjopen-2023-082757
Abstrakt:	Introduction: The surge of public health emergencies over the past decade has disproportionately affected sub-Saharan Africa. These include outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola, Monkeypox and COVID-19. Experience has shown that community participation is key to the successful implementation of infection control activities. Despite the pivotal role community engagement plays in epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response activities, strategies to engage communities have been underexplored to date, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa. Furthermore, reviews conducted have not included evidence from the latest pandemic, COVID-19. This scoping review aims to address these gaps by documenting through available literature, the strategies for community engagement for epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response in sub-Sahara Africa. Methods and Analysis: We will use the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews and the methodological framework for scoping reviews from Arksey and O'Malley to guide the review. Two reviewers will develop a systematic search strategy to identify articles published from January 2014 to date. We will retrieve peer-reviewed research published in the English language from databases including Embase, EBSCO-host, PubMed, Global Health, CINAHL, Google Scholar and Web of Science. Additionally, we will search for relevant grey literature from the websites of specific international organisations, public health institutes and Government Ministries of Health in African countries. After the removal of duplicates, the two reviewers will independently screen all titles, abstracts and full articles to establish the relevance of each study for inclusion in the review. We will extract data from the included articles using a data extraction tool and present the findings in tabular form with an accompanying narrative to aid comprehension. Ethics and Dissemination: Ethical approval is not required for the conduct of scoping reviews. We plan to disseminate the findings from this review through publications in a peer-reviewed journal, presentations at conferences and meetings with policy-makers. Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)
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