查看文章

Community engagement in research enhances a community's ability to address its own needs and challenges while ensuring that researchers understand community priorities. Some confusion exists about the definition of community engagement in the context of veteran research. The purpose of this study was to search the literature to identify common applications of community engagement in US veterans’ research and to determine how and at what stage veterans were involved in the research process. A systematic scoping review was conducted using CINAHL Plus, Wiley Cochrane Library, Education Source, ERIC, APA PsycInfo, National Library of Medicine PubMed, ProQuest Social Services Abstracts, and SocIndex by two independent investigators. Forty-two of 1,977 studies from initial searches were included in this review. From these studies, we identified two aspects of veterans’ involvement in research …