An observational study in Behavior, Consumer, Research, Communication and Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, sponsored by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company. Completed at 1 site in United Arab Emirates. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-02-17.
Sponsored by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company · Observational
Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) is already in the process of providing support for research infrastructure, such as trained staff, medical facilities, funding, and training needs for its healthcare professionals (HCPs). An HCP's own interest in clinical research is an individualistic trait that SEHA wants to target and develop, complementary to its medical staff specialty, educational background, and willingness to learn.
The investigators' aim with this study is to understand the participants' perspective on challenges and barriers stopping them from conducting research and what supportive measures they have around them from the organization and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that back their growth as research professionals at SEHA.
The investigators' aim with this study is to understand healthcare professionals' (HCPs) perspective on challenges and barriers stopping them from conducting research and what supportive measures they have around them from the organization and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that back their growth as research professionals at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company -SEHA.
Investigators hypothesize that participants will give positive feedback on their interest in conducting clinical research but will outline barriers like lack of training opportunities, trained clinical operations staff, organizational support, protected time, etc. Moreover, they will also highlight the lack of data system training, participant accrual challenges, software interoperability issues, sponsor and contract research organization (CRO) issues, and lack of funding opportunities as major barriers to conducting research in the UAE.
719 studies on the registry are indexed under Communication; 159 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 597 is above the median of 104 across 132 observational studies indexed under Communication.
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Compared within Communication, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Consumer Behavior. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →
The study population is comprised of SEHA healthcare employees.
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SEHA Healthcare employees (doctors, nurses, and allied health staff) will be approached through email to answer the study survey.
Understanding Knowledge and Attitudes of SEHA Healthcare professionals toward clinical research.
A self-built survey was created to cover the different aspects of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) healthcare organizational practices and clinical research practices. The survey was pilot-tested on 6 volunteers not related to the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) for comprehension and ease of reading. The survey aims to understand participants' perspectives on challenges and barriers stopping them from conducting research and what supportive measures they have around them from the SEHA as an organization and the UAE that back their growth as medical research professionals. The data collected can help guide in bringing positive organizational changes to enhance clinical research at SEHA and in the UAE.
Time frame: 3 months
Plan to share: No
Ran from May 2024 to primary completion in Jul 2024, 2 months.
Of 51 non-industry observational studies under Communication, half reached primary completion within 25 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 10 and three quarters within 61. This study's 2 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 53 studies reached it within 25 months; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 61.
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