ArticleBMJ open2024
Reported community engagement in health equity research published in high-impact medical journals: a scoping review.
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- A critical reflection on community engagement in health equity research: translating principles into practice, navigating barriers, and compiling transferable lessons.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Amplifying the voices of people with chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) care through photovoice: a case study of patient and public involvement in Klang, Malaysia.Research involvement and engagement · 2026Article
- Community engagement in public health palliative care: A comparative ethnographic study of two culturally distinct compassionate communities in Canada.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- The Report of Engagement in Community Research (REACH) Tool: A Strategy to Promote Transparency and Improve Planning in Community-Engaged Research.Journal of participatory research methods · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess reported community engagement in the design and conduct of health equity-focused articles published in high-impact journals.
designScoping review follows guidance from the Joanna Briggs Institute and Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. DATA SOURCES: We selected the three highest-ranked journals from the 'Medicine-General and Internal' category including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) along with all journals under their family of subspecialty journals (JAMA Network, The Lancet Group and the NEJM Group). Ovid MEDLINE was searched between 1 January 2021 to 22 September 2022. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: We included health equity-focused articles and assessed for the reporting of community engagement at each stage of the research process. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS: Two independent reviewers extracted data from articles that met the inclusionary criteria. Inter-rater reliability was assessed using Cohen's kappa to measure the agreement between two independent reviewers. Disagreements were adjudicated by a third independent reviewer.
results7616 articles were screened, 626 (8.2%) met our inclusion criteria: 457 (3.8%) were published by the JAMA Network; 167 (2.4%) by The Lancet Group; and 2 (0.2%) by the NEJM group. Most articles were from USA (68.4%) and focused on adult populations (57.7%). The majority of the articles focused on the topic of race/ethnicity (n=176, 28.1%), socioeconomic status (n=114, 18.2%) or multiple equity topics (n=111, 17.7%). The use of community engagement approaches was reported in 97 (15.5%) articles, of which 13 articles (13.4%) reported engagement at all stages. The most common form of reported engagement was in the acknowledgement or additional contribution section (n=86, 88.7%).
conclusionsCommunity engagement is infrequently reported in health equity-focused research published in high-impact medical journals.
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