This channel, Protect VP, shares 25 Xtranormal (see xtranormal.com) animations created to help stroke navigators (community health workers) understand the special ethical consideration involved in doing research in the community. Research ethics can be a fairly dry topic and we hoped that teaching through "Chuchuz" might make the process more enjoyable and the learning more "sticky."
The "Five Commandments," essential do's and don'ts, of doing research in the community are explored across the clips shared here: Recruiting Thy Patient, Consenting Thy Patient, Respecting Thy Patient's Privacy, Health Care vs. Research, and Documentation.
Each of these five areas explores a conflict, a "right" action and paired "good" outcome, as well as a "wrong" action and paired "bad" outcome. To access these clips properly organized on this channel, search a keyword plus the word "do," "don't," "outcome-good," "outcome-bad," or "conflict."
These learning resources were created through Supplement (ARRA - US54NS057405-02S1) Funding by the PROTECT DC project, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that is studying the effect of patient navigation on reducing the incidence of secondary stroke in patients in Washington, DC. The name of the channel is a hybrid of the project name and the virtual patient (VP) method by which the video clips have been organized into a branching logic tutorial for navigators using DecisionSim (decisionsimulation.com) technology.
For more information on PROTECT DC, contact [email protected]. If you're interested in testing the Research Ethics for Navigators learning materials in DecisionSim, contact [email protected]. Feedback on any aspect of these videos is very much appreciated!