Involving stakeholders with lived and professional experience in a realist review of community mental health crisis services: a commentary.

ABSTRACT: Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is considered good practice in all health research including literature reviews. Reporting of involvement practice in realist reviews has been inconsistent leaving gaps in understanding of best practice. Realist reviews are theory driven and explain how interventions work, for whom and in which circumstances. PPI in realist reviews provides a link between programme theory and real-world experiences and can be achieved through a 'stakeholder group' bringing lived and professional experience together. This paper discusses experiences of a stakeholder group with seven members with lived experience and eight members with professional experience in a realist review focused on how community mental health crisis services work. A mental health crisis is a time

SUBMITTER: Ashman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653646 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature