Establishing a peer advisory board in a mental health ethics research group - challenges, benefits, facilitators and lessons learned.

ABSTRACT: While participatory methods are regarded as beneficial in many areas of psychiatric research, they are still rarely considered in the field of mental health ethics. Yet, there are several epistemic and ethical reasons why participatory research is particularly important in this field, such as the high relevance of experiential knowledge for ethical analyses. In this article, we report our experiences with establishing a peer advisory board for an existing mental health ethics research group. We demonstrate how a peer advisory board can provide low-threshold opportunities for various forms of participation, which can occur simultaneously within one research project. We first describe how we established the peer advisory board and explain its structure. We then give an overview of several re

SUBMITTER: Faissner M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907373 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature