Go Slow to Go Fast: Successful Engagement Strategies for Patient-Centered, Multi-Site Research, Involving Academic and Community-Based Organizations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2010, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was created to fund patient-centered research that meaningfully engages stakeholders impacted by that research. As a result, investigators became interested in understanding who are appropriate stakeholders and what meaningful engagement in research looks like (6, 8-10).

Objective

To understand how and when stakeholder engagement worked well and identify areas for enhancing engagement in a PCORI-funded research study of peer-to-peer support of older adults in three communities across the USA.

Design

Qualitative interview study.

Participants

Twelve members of the inter-disciplinary research team.

Approach

Interviews were conducted via phone, recorded, and transcribed. Transcripts

SUBMITTER: Pinsoneault LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318189 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature