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Abstract：
UNASSIGNED: Community engagement and involvement (CEI) in research usually depends on face-to-face interactions. However, the COVID-19 pandemic prevented such interactions because of national lockdowns and social distancing. This paper highlights the ways in which early career researchers from East Africa tackled CEI activities during the pandemic.
UNASSIGNED: We provide four case examples that illustrate how early-career researchers based in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, deployed different approaches and initiatives to community-engaged research during the pandemic to encourage participation and uptake of research findings.
UNASSIGNED: All the three early-career researchers attempted to use virtual/digital means to implement the CEI. However, in each country, this attempt was unsuccessful because of poor connectivity, as well as many poorer students lacking access to telephones and computers. Nevertheless, the researchers effectively engaged the students using different activities (making up songs, drawing comics, and taking part in quizzes) once the schools reopened.
UNASSIGNED: These results highlight the complexity of implementing community engagement and involvement in health research when face-to-face interaction is not possible. The findings are relevant to researchers who wish to incorporate community engagement in their research and initiatives.
UNASSIGNED: We provide four case examples that illustrate how early-career researchers based in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, deployed different approaches and initiatives to community-engaged research during the pandemic to encourage participation and uptake of research findings.
UNASSIGNED: All the three early-career researchers attempted to use virtual/digital means to implement the CEI. However, in each country, this attempt was unsuccessful because of poor connectivity, as well as many poorer students lacking access to telephones and computers. Nevertheless, the researchers effectively engaged the students using different activities (making up songs, drawing comics, and taking part in quizzes) once the schools reopened.
UNASSIGNED: These results highlight the complexity of implementing community engagement and involvement in health research when face-to-face interaction is not possible. The findings are relevant to researchers who wish to incorporate community engagement in their research and initiatives.
摘要：
■研究中的社区参与和参与（CEI）通常取决于面对面的互动。然而,由于国家封锁和社交距离，COVID-19大流行阻止了这种互动。本文重点介绍了东非早期职业研究人员在大流行期间处理CEI活动的方式。
■我们提供了四个案例，说明了在肯尼亚的早期职业研究人员如何，乌干达和坦桑尼亚，在大流行期间，对社区参与的研究采取了不同的方法和举措，以鼓励参与和吸收研究结果。
■所有三位早期职业研究人员都试图使用虚拟/数字手段来实现CEI。然而,在每个国家,由于连接不良，此尝试失败，以及许多无法使用电话和计算机的贫困学生。然而，研究人员有效地让学生使用不同的活动(制作歌曲，画漫画,并参加测验）一旦学校重新开放。
■这些结果凸显了在无法进行面对面互动时实施社区参与和参与健康研究的复杂性。这些发现与希望将社区参与纳入其研究和计划的研究人员有关。
■我们提供了四个案例，说明了在肯尼亚的早期职业研究人员如何，乌干达和坦桑尼亚，在大流行期间，对社区参与的研究采取了不同的方法和举措，以鼓励参与和吸收研究结果。
■所有三位早期职业研究人员都试图使用虚拟/数字手段来实现CEI。然而,在每个国家,由于连接不良，此尝试失败，以及许多无法使用电话和计算机的贫困学生。然而，研究人员有效地让学生使用不同的活动(制作歌曲，画漫画,并参加测验）一旦学校重新开放。
■这些结果凸显了在无法进行面对面互动时实施社区参与和参与健康研究的复杂性。这些发现与希望将社区参与纳入其研究和计划的研究人员有关。
