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Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study
BACKGROUND: Although participatory research is known to have advantages, it is unclear how participatory research can best be performed. This study aims to report on lessons learned in collaboration with service users involved as co-researchers in three participatory teams in long-term care. METHODS...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40900-020-00187-5 |
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author | Scheffelaar, Aukelien Bos, Nanne de Jong, Marjan Triemstra, Mattanja van Dulmen, Sandra Luijkx, Katrien |
author_facet | Scheffelaar, Aukelien Bos, Nanne de Jong, Marjan Triemstra, Mattanja van Dulmen, Sandra Luijkx, Katrien |
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description | BACKGROUND: Although participatory research is known to have advantages, it is unclear how participatory research can best be performed. This study aims to report on lessons learned in collaboration with service users involved as co-researchers in three participatory teams in long-term care. METHODS: A multiple case study design was chosen to explore the collaboration in three teams, each covering one specific client group receiving long-term care: physically or mentally frail elderly people, people with mental health problems or people with intellectual disabilities. RESULTS: A good working environment and a good collaboration were found to be crucial requirements for participatory research. A good working environment was developed by discussing reasons for engagement and wishes, formulating basic rules, organizing training sessions, offering financial appreciation, and the availability of the researcher to give travel support. The actual collaboration was established by developing a bond and equal positioning, deciding on the role division, holding on to transparency and a clear structure, and have sufficient time for the collaboration. Moreover, the motivations and unique contributions of the co-researchers and differences between the teams were reported. The motivations of co-researchers ranged from individual goals – such as personal development, creating a new social identity and belonging to a social group – to more external goals, such as being valuable for other service users and increasing the quality of care. An inclusive collaboration required valuing the individual contributions of co-researchers and adjustment to team differences. CONCLUSIONS: The results showed the importance of developing a good working environment and establishing a good collaboration for participatory research. Furthermore, the study shows that individual and team differences should be taken into account. These results can be used by researchers for designing and shaping future research projects in long-term care in collaboration with co-researchers. |
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spelling | pubmed-72687432020-06-08 Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study Scheffelaar, Aukelien Bos, Nanne de Jong, Marjan Triemstra, Mattanja van Dulmen, Sandra Luijkx, Katrien Res Involv Engagem Research Article BACKGROUND: Although participatory research is known to have advantages, it is unclear how participatory research can best be performed. This study aims to report on lessons learned in collaboration with service users involved as co-researchers in three participatory teams in long-term care. METHODS: A multiple case study design was chosen to explore the collaboration in three teams, each covering one specific client group receiving long-term care: physically or mentally frail elderly people, people with mental health problems or people with intellectual disabilities. RESULTS: A good working environment and a good collaboration were found to be crucial requirements for participatory research. A good working environment was developed by discussing reasons for engagement and wishes, formulating basic rules, organizing training sessions, offering financial appreciation, and the availability of the researcher to give travel support. The actual collaboration was established by developing a bond and equal positioning, deciding on the role division, holding on to transparency and a clear structure, and have sufficient time for the collaboration. Moreover, the motivations and unique contributions of the co-researchers and differences between the teams were reported. The motivations of co-researchers ranged from individual goals – such as personal development, creating a new social identity and belonging to a social group – to more external goals, such as being valuable for other service users and increasing the quality of care. An inclusive collaboration required valuing the individual contributions of co-researchers and adjustment to team differences. CONCLUSIONS: The results showed the importance of developing a good working environment and establishing a good collaboration for participatory research. Furthermore, the study shows that individual and team differences should be taken into account. These results can be used by researchers for designing and shaping future research projects in long-term care in collaboration with co-researchers. BioMed Central 2020-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC7268743/ /pubmed/32518688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40900-020-00187-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Scheffelaar, Aukelien Bos, Nanne de Jong, Marjan Triemstra, Mattanja van Dulmen, Sandra Luijkx, Katrien Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
title | Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
title_full | Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
title_fullStr | Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
title_full_unstemmed | Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
title_short | Lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
title_sort | lessons learned from participatory research to enhance client participation in long-term care research: a multiple case study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7268743/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518688 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40900-020-00187-5 |
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