NDLI: Recommendations for successful involvement of patient partners in complex intervention research: a collaborative learning process

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Skovlund, Pernille Christiansen Finderup, Jeanette Aabo, Sanne Jensen, Flemming Søndergaard, Henning Rodkjær, Lotte Ørneborg
Abstract	Background Patient and public involvement in health-related research is a new discipline in Denmark. In 2021, a national conference titled 'Patient and Public Involvement in Complex Intervention Research' provided a forum for discussion between patient partners, researchers and clinicians on involving patients as partners in complex intervention research. Methods We aimed to describe specific challenges to and initiatives for patient partner involvement in order to develop recommendations for creating successful partnerships in complex intervention research. Through a collaborative learning process, 140 researchers identified the most important challenges for them in patient partner involvement and potential initiatives to improve such involvement. At a subsequent workshop, four patient partners identified the challenges and initiatives from their perspective as patient partners. They also gave feedback on the challenges and initiatives suggested by the researchers and helped shape three recommendations for practice. Three of the patient partners were involved in writing this paper. Results The five most important challenges identified by researchers were time, recruitment, ethics, power and inequality. Between four and seven initiatives to overcome these challenges were suggested. The three most important challenges identified by patient partners were communication, when you get information that is hard to handle and recruitment. They suggested three to four initiatives for improvement. Patient partners confirmed the importance of all the researcher identified challenges when presented with them, they also provided additional comments on the researchers’ initiatives. This led to the formation of recommendations for involving patient partners. Conclusions A collaborative learning process was shown to be a suitable method for patient partner involvement. Consistency was seen between the challenges and initiatives identified by researchers and patient partners. Based on these observations, three recommendations were developed: (1) create specific programmes that aim to involve all kind of patients (including but limited to vulnerable patients) as patient partners, (2) produce ethical guidelines for the involvement of patient partners, and (3) develop a national strategy for patient partner involvement. To build on these recommendations, a joint workshop with both researchers and patient partners is needed.
Related Links	https://researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s40900-023-00533-3.pdf
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Page Count	14
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ISSN	20567529
DOI	10.1186/s40900-023-00533-3
Journal	Research Involvement and Engagement
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	10
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2024-01-03
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Medicine Public Health Patient partners Challenges Initiatives Workshops Collaborative learning process Recommendations Medicine/Public Health
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Professions Health (social science)

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