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Exploring Impact: Public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research
New INVOLVE Report launched 6th November 2009
Exploring Impact: Public involvement in NHS, public health and social care research
This new INVOLVE report was launched on Friday 6th November 2009 by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development at the Department of Health.
This report explores the impact of public involvement through an in-depth review of published literature.
It draws together a wealth of examples of how public involvement is conducted, and what difference it is making. But it also raises questions of the quality of the evidence for the impact of such involvement, revealing huge variation in how this is assessed and reported and highlighting difficulties in judging it or drawing general conclusions.
However, although there is not a consistent approach to assessing impact, or describing it, the same benefits and costs are being consistently reported:
in clinical research it was found to be of particular value in ensuring acceptability of trials, and that participants felt them to be ethical, well-designed and have relevant outcome measures
public involvement was reported to help increase recruitment to all types of research
public involvement was reported to be of value in qualitative research
Please download a copy of the full report below.
If you would like to order a hard copy of the report please email admin@invo.org.uk or telephone 02380 651088
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Exploring Impact Full Report
Exploring Impact Summary
06/11/2009
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