How can community input help in implementing a study?
At the next step of the continuum is an arrangement that involves solicitation of a community partner to assist in implementing a study designed by the researcher. In this case, the community partner may advise or function as a subcontractor to carry out a specific set of tasks required by the study. Community partners may participate in this way for the financial resources generated, because the arrangement otherwise benefits the organization or their clients or community, and/ or because the clinic/ organization is interested in influencing research taking place in the community and learning research skills.
