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Title: Blue skies in the Journal of Mental Health? Consumers in research.
Author: Wykes, T.
Date Published: 2003
Reference: Journal of Mental Health, 12(1), 1-6.
Are service users or carers authors: No/Not Known
Abstract:
This article provides the author's personal view of the positive outcomes of service user involvement in research. The main benefits that she describes include:
- improving the scientific quality of the research by changing research questions
- ensuring that outcome measures more closely relate to what's important to service users
- developing outcome measures that more directly reflect meaningful changes to everyday life and better capture the complexities of the effects of a treatment
- adapting research proposals and methodology to better reflect the interests of service users, for example running qualitative studies of users' views of treatments alongside quantitative clinical trials that focus on overly-simplistic clinical outcome measures.
Related entry: none currently available
Categories: health
impact on research
impact of public involvement
journal article
Date Entered: 2009/01/28
Date Edited: 2012/11/21
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