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Health Research Capacity Building Of Health Workers In Fragile And Conflict-Affected Settings: A Scoping Review Of Challenges, Strengths, And Recommendations, Rania Mansour, Hady Naal, Tarek Kishawi, Nassim El Achi, Layal Hneiny, Shadi Saleh
Health Research Capacity Building Of Health Workers In Fragile And Conflict-Affected Settings: A Scoping Review Of Challenges, Strengths, And Recommendations, Rania Mansour, Hady Naal, Tarek Kishawi, Nassim El Achi, Layal Hneiny, Shadi Saleh
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Background
Fragile and conflict-affected settings (FCAS) have a strong need to improve the capacity of local health workers to conduct health research in order to improve health policy and health outcomes. Health research capacity building (HRCB) programmes are ideal to equip health workers with the needed skills and knowledge to design and lead health-related research initiatives. The study aimed to review the characteristics of HRCB studies in FCASs in order to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and to recommend future directions for the field.
Methods
We conducted a scoping review and searched four databases for peer-reviewed articles that reported an …