Social innovation research checklist: A crowdsourcing open call and digital hackathon to develop a checklist for research to advance social innovation in health

Abstract

While social innovations in health have shown promise in closing the healthcare delivery gap, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), more research is needed to evaluate, scale up, and sustain social innovations. Research checklists can standardize and improve reporting of research findings, promote transparency, and increase replicability of study results and findings. This article describes the development of a 17-item social innovation in health research checklist to assess and report social innovation projects and provides examples of good reporting. The checklist is adapted from the TIDieR checklist and will facilitate more complete and transparent reporting and increase end user engagement.

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“…This is consistent with other hackathons that were successfully implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic [ 36 , 37 ]. In contrast to our designathon, these events were conducted virtually [ 36 , 37 ]. Our designathon was implemented immediately prior to the COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria.…”

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