Why do researchers want to involve consumers in research?
Hear from Dr Erandi Hewawasam
- To learn about what patient priorities are.
- To gain insights into patients’ lived experiences.
- What worked?
- What didn’t work?
- Where could we improve the care?
Hear from Dr Karine Manera
- To ensure that time and resources spent on research will make a meaningful and important contribution.
- To produce research outputs that have direct relevance to the consumers affected.
- To empower patients and build their skills as researchers.
- To provide a perspective outside of that of a researcher. This often helps to improve documents and resources. For example, when language is too full of jargon, or documents are too wordy and need to be more appealing.