Facilitators of and barriers to patient and public involvement in mental health research within university settings: a systematic review and meta-synthesis.

ABSTRACT: Patient and public involvement (PPI) increasingly features in the shaping, design, and conduct of mental health research. This review identifies and synthesizes evidence of barriers and facilitators of PPI in mental health research within university settings. The search strategy followed PRISMA guidance and involved keyword searches in eight peer reviewed databases, grey literature, hand searching two journals, requests to national mental health organizations, and backwards and forwards citation searching. We included primary mental health studies on patient and public involvement, with data on facilitators and barriers. Data were extracted capturing author, date and country of publication, study aim, participant and research team composition, data collection and analysis methods, and leve

SUBMITTER: Evans J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12527515 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature