Follow-up in the Community
Post-operative check-ups at a local community clinic instead of the hospital.
Research group
Community Trials Unit
Trials designed with, and run in, the communities they serve.
The unit partners with community health providers to co-design studies, recruit fairly and report results back in plain language.
Our research
The studies listed on this page are run or led by the group. Each one is entered once and also appears on the matching theme pages.
Our studies
Recruiting Completed Results Back to People
Testing different ways of sharing trial results with the people who took part.
Our people
Dr Priya Castellane
Group Leader
Priya is a public health researcher who builds partnerships between hospital research teams and community health providers.
Ruby Hartigan
Summer Research Student
Ruby is helping the unit write plain-language summaries of trial results for participants.
Publications
Selected paper
Returning trial results to participants: a comparison of three approaches
Castellane P, Hartigan R, et al. Example Trials Methodology, 2025. doi:10.5555/example.2025.031In plain language: We asked trial participants how they preferred to hear about results. Short videos and community meetings were both understood better than printed summaries, and people valued hearing from the research team directly.
- Co-designing surgical trials with community health providersCastellane P. Example Trials Methodology, 2026. doi:10.5555/example.2026.108
- How patients talk about surgical risk: a qualitative studyAldous M, Wrenfield T. Example Health Communication, 2025. doi:10.5555/example.2025.104