2023 Special Edition 1 - Parent Perspectives List
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2023 Special Edition 1 - Parent Perspectives List
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Children's perspectives on the benefits and burdens of research participation
BACKGROUND: Participation in research is associated with benefits and burdens for individual research participants. Children living with a chronic illness are considered particularly vulnerable as they are already burdened with symptoms of their…
What constitutes meaningful engagement for patients and families as partners on research teams?
Objective There is growing emphasis on health care organizations to ensure that lay people are meaningfully engaged as partners on research teams. Our aim was to explore the perspectives of patients, family members and informal caregivers who have…
Family experience in a regional participant contact registry for research on intellectual disability
Participant recruitment is one of the most significant challenges in research on intellectual disability (ID). One potential solution is to develop a participant contact registry, which allows the researcher to contact participants directly rather…
Laying the groundwork: Building relationships for public and patient involvement in pre-clinical paediatric research
CONTEXT: Public and patient involvement is increasingly becoming an expectation of research funders and policy makers. Not all areas of health research are public-facing. Here, we outline an approach for building the skills and developing the…
Patient Experience Research in Children and Young People's Mental Health Services in England: A Route to Genuine Service Transformation or Just Pretty Pictures and Tasteful Color Schemes?
The personalization of service provision and responding to patients' expressed needs are key components of government plans to improve children and young people's mental health services in England. This qualitative study explored the use of patient…
Patient Involvement in RSV Research: Towards Patients Setting the Research Agenda
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes a substantial disease burden among children, elderly and immunocompromised adults. Recognition of patient involvement in research is gradually increasing. Most research is being carried out without active…
Adolescent Health Series: Engagement with young people as partners in health research: Four case studies from Sub-Saharan Africa
OBJECTIVES: Existing health services for young people (YP)(10-24 years), which are predominantly designed for but not with young people, often do not meet YP's needs. The 2018 Global Consensus Statement on meaningful adolescent and youth engagement…
Shortening and validation of the Patient Engagement In Research Scale (PEIRS) for measuring meaningful patient and family caregiver engagement
OBJECTIVE: To shorten the Patient Engagement In Research Scale (PEIRS) to its most essential items and evaluate its measurement properties for assessing the degree of patients' and family caregivers' meaningful engagement as partners in research…
Establishing a multistakeholder research agenda: lessons learned from a James Lind Alliance Partnership
OBJECTIVE: The James Lind Alliance (JLA) offers a method for better aligning health and care agenda's with the needs of patients, carers and clinicians by bringing them together in a Priority Setting Partnership (PSP). In this paper, we draw…
I actually felt like I was a researcher myself.' On involving children in the analysis of qualitative paediatric research in the Netherlands
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the feasibility of a new approach to paediatric research whereby we involved children in analysing qualitative data, and to reflect on the involvement process. SETTING: This was a single-centre, qualitative study in the…
Short-term Focused Feedback: A Model to Enhance Patient Engagement in Research and Intervention Delivery
BACKGROUND: Our grant from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) focused on the use of nurse home visits postdischarge for primarily pediatric hospital medicine patients. While our team recognized the importance of engaging parents…
Codevelopment and usability testing of Patient Engagement 101: a Patient-Oriented Research Curriculum in Child Health e-learning module for health care professionals, researchers and trainees
BACKGROUND: Patient and family engagement is thought to improve the quality and relevance of child health research. We developed and evaluated the usability of Patient Engagement 101, an e-learning module designed to strengthen the patient-oriented…
Lessons Learned in Implementing Youth and Parent Participatory Action Research in a School-Based Intervention
BACKGROUND: Participatory action research (PAR) empowers youth and parent stakeholders to address school connectedness and school environment inequities to improve educational social determinants of health. OBJECTIVES: To identify lessons learned…
The Experience of Parental Caregiving for Children With Medical Complexity
Children with medical complexity (CMC) have complex chronic conditions with significant functional impairment, contributing to high caregiving demand. This study seeks to explore impacts of parental caregiving for CMC. Fifteen caregivers of CMC…
Depression and Quality of Life Among Caregivers of Pediatric Cancer Patients
Background This study aimed to assess the prevalence of depression, depressive symptoms, and quality of life among caregivers of pediatric cancer patients and the associated risk factors. Methodology In total, 73 participants were recruited for this…