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| Abstract #2322 - Poster 2 | ||||
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Session: 59.10: Poster 2 (Poster) on Tuesday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Dr Couderc Mathilde - VRI , France |
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| Aim: The context of participants’ recruitment in HIV clinical trials in France is far from the phenomenon of “recruitmentology” (Epstein, 2007), “commercialization of science” (Petryna, 2006) or the concept of population “ready to recruit” (Fisher, 2007) described in the United States. This communication deals with an innovative process - a social media campaign - to enroll healthy volunteers for an HIV preventive vaccine trial set up in France in 2014 by the Vaccine Research Institute (ANRS VRI01). It involves heterogeneous actors (biomedical team, HIV associations, communication professionals, population) and communication processes (web site, social networks, trial information note) which both mobilize different types of skills, knowledge and discourses (media, bioethical, scientific, etc.). Researchers in media studies and medical anthropology analyze the social characteristics and the informational practices of the potential volunteers and ask: How the media campaign contributes to the decision to participate? Which factors represent a curb in engaging into such medical research? | ||||
| Method / Issue: This survey is based on two qualitative and comprehensive approaches: 1) observation during the pre-inclusion visits 2) interviews with participants (29), volunteers (9) and indecisive persons (5). | ||||
| Results / Comments: This communication introduces the term “personal public engagement” to define how individuals build their own citizenship practices towards and through HIV research, considering the following social prerequisites that will be developed: proximity with the medical field and with HIV-AIDS, trust in medical institutions, risk perceptions, (mis)understanding and interpretation of the media campaign’ discourses, existing engagement into charity, organ donation, etc. | ||||
| Discussion: The literature in social sciences related to strategies of recruitment into medical research protocols only documents the context of clinical trials realized by private pharmaceutical industries, in the United States. Our original qualitative survey will enable a comparative approach with other socio-cultural contexts and give a better understanding about how to communicate about HIV Vaccine Prevention Research and what do healthy volunteers engage for. This reflexion about the actors and practices of recruitment could be extend to vaccine clinical trials associated with other pathologies. | ||||
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