Co-designing strategies to support patient partners during a scoping review and reflections on the process: a commentary.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient partners can be described as individuals who assume roles as active members on research teams, indicative of individuals with greater involvement, increased sharing of power, and increased responsibility than traditionally described by patient participants who are primarily studied. A gap still remains in the understanding of how to engage patients. The objective of this commentary is to describe the involvement of four patient partners who worked with researchers during a scoping review.

Main body

We describe approaches to meaningfully engage patient partners in conducting a scoping review. Patient partners were recruited through existing patient networks. Capacity development in the form of the training was provided to these four patient partners. Engage

SUBMITTER: McCarron TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8108017 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature