Healthcare Professionals' Attitude Towards Clinical Research in the United Arab Emirates

February 13, 2025 updated by: Alina Naeem, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company

Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours Toward Clinical Research in the United Arab Emirates

Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) is already in the process of providing support for research infrastructure, such as trained staff, medical facilities, funding, and training needs for its healthcare professionals (HCPs). An HCP's own interest in clinical research is an individualistic trait that SEHA wants to target and develop, complementary to its medical staff specialty, educational background, and willingness to learn.

The investigators' aim with this study is to understand the participants' perspective on challenges and barriers stopping them from conducting research and what supportive measures they have around them from the organization and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that back their growth as research professionals at SEHA.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Detailed Description

The investigators' aim with this study is to understand healthcare professionals' (HCPs) perspective on challenges and barriers stopping them from conducting research and what supportive measures they have around them from the organization and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that back their growth as research professionals at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company -SEHA.

Investigators hypothesize that participants will give positive feedback on their interest in conducting clinical research but will outline barriers like lack of training opportunities, trained clinical operations staff, organizational support, protected time, etc. Moreover, they will also highlight the lack of data system training, participant accrual challenges, software interoperability issues, sponsor and contract research organization (CRO) issues, and lack of funding opportunities as major barriers to conducting research in the UAE.

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

597

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The study population is comprised of SEHA healthcare employees.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Current SEHA Employee
  • Identify as a Healthcare Professional

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Non-SEHA individuals
  • Non-Healthcare professionals

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Healthcare professionals working at SEHA
SEHA Healthcare employees (doctors, nurses, and allied health staff) will be approached through email to answer the study survey.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Understanding Knowledge and Attitudes of SEHA Healthcare professionals toward clinical research.
Time Frame: 3 months
A self-built survey was created to cover the different aspects of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) healthcare organizational practices and clinical research practices. The survey was pilot-tested on 6 volunteers not related to the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) for comprehension and ease of reading. The survey aims to understand participants' perspectives on challenges and barriers stopping them from conducting research and what supportive measures they have around them from the SEHA as an organization and the UAE that back their growth as medical research professionals. The data collected can help guide in bringing positive organizational changes to enhance clinical research at SEHA and in the UAE.
3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Abu Dhabi Health Services Company

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Mariam S Al Harbi, MD, Abu Dhabi Health Services Co. -SEHA
  • Study Chair: Erik BS Koornneef, PHD, Abu Dhabi Health Services Co. -SEHA

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

May 15, 2024

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 31, 2024

Study Completion (Actual)

December 30, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 26, 2024

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 31, 2024

First Posted (Actual)

August 1, 2024

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

March 25, 2025

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 13, 2025

Last Verified

February 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • AbuDhabiHealthSvsCo

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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