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Abstract:

The authors reflect on the impact that service user and carer involvement had on the process of qualitative data analysis in a mental health research project. They report that non-academic members of the team sometimes challenged academic conventions, leading to more complex findings that would otherwise have been missing. For example service users challenged some of the quantitative findings around medication, which led to a more in-depth review of the qualitative data on this issue. This revealed more complex and subtle findings about relationships between service users and clinicians and choices about medication. The authors conclude that involvement is not just about adding the service user voice to that of the academics, but about co-producing new knowledge through discussion and exploration of what the different voices mean in relation to each other.

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Categories: health
Analysing and interpreting
Writing up and disseminating
impact on research
impact of public involvement
reflecting on public involvement in research
journal article

Date Entered: 2012/06/20

Date Edited: 2012/11/20