What is Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)?
INVOLVE defines PPI as “research being carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the public and the patients rather than ‘to’, ‘about’ or ‘for’ them.” (NIHR, n.d.) This includes, for example, working with research funders to prioritise research, offering advice as members of a project steering group, commenting on and developing research materials, undertaking interviews with research participants. The 2009 NHS Constitution pledged to give patients access to information about research and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 requires NHS organisations to promote it. One therefore might expect a happy coalition between clinicians and the patients. However Simon Denegri, National Institute for Health
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However PPI does not just refer to researchers raising awareness or engaging and creating a dialogue with the public and their patients. PPI also looks further than the recruitment of patients and the public in clinical trials. However, these different activities – involvement, engagement and participation – are often linked and can complement each other. INVOLVE uses these definitions to distinguish between the three ideas.
Participation is stereotypically seen as something just for patients, however using the public is just as important. There is often an idea that patients can only get involved in clinical trials and that any opinions they may have about their research should be held back as ‘the doctor knows best’. This phrase can often be heard throughout members of the public. With this comes an unhappy patient as they do not feel that they have the chance and the right to speak out when they are not happy with their care or not happy with the research being done on and around them. It is a very toxic ideal and is what PPI tries to
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(Anon., 2016) However PPI can often be seen as a tick box to get the funding needed for your research. People have both preconceptions and misconceptions around PPI models, regularly stressing the amount of time needed to try and explain their research to the public as they are not ‘professionals’. However I believe that PPI has benefits for the patients, the public and the
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...herapeutic ways to interact with a client. Overall, I believe that I am capable and eager to work with patients like Gerald, but I also realize that I have to keep educating myself, keep up with the ever-evolving management of illness and treatments.
The IRB is an administrative body which has been established to make sure research participants' rights are protected. IRBs review all aspects of the researchers' project: the study design, the recruitment process, the participant population, the informed consent document and process, the risk/benefit ratio, privacy and confidentiality, data storage and protection, and safeguards for vulnerable participants (University of St. Francis, n.d.). In this way, participants' rights are protected because the effort is made even before the research begins. The review process ensures that participants are chosen fairly and informed adequately and the information collected during research is safeguarded through collection, use, and storage. Research using human participants is such an important part of medicine that it is imperative it is performed in a way that its intrigue is not compromised.
Article two entitled “Clinical trials: are they ethical?” is written by Eugene Passamani discusses the importance of randomized clinical trials. Passamani rejects the argument that the physician-patient relationship demands that physicians recommend ...
... clinical trial comparing two treatments is in progress, and a physician has an opinion about which treatment is better. This duty creates a barrier to the enrollment of patients in randomized clinical trials.
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According to Healthy People 2012 there are more then 800,000 new cases of diabetes each year, with the numbers on the rise. With this in mind, Healthy People 2012 has identified diabetes as their number five focus area. In order to reach their goal of improving the quality of life for people with diabetes they have identified diabetes teaching as their number one objective. Furthermore, in order to reduce the number of complications of diabetes, Healthy People 2012 has identified foot ulcers as their ninth objective. Through patient education Healthy People 2012 hopes to reduce the number of foot ulcers in people with diabetes, as diabetes is the number one cause of nontraumatic amputations in the United States. In order to successfully reduce the number of amputations and diabetic foot ulcers, patient teaching is essential. Patient teaching, as with the nursing process, begins with assessment in order to identify the patients learning needs (Wilkinson & Van Leuven, 2007).
The idea behind conforming to evidenced based practices is that research is the most likely tool to improve patient
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It involves health care transformation where by patient passively participating in their health care process to the best of their interest in order to live a quality and healthy life to their expectation. I value the healthcare process as a team work between patients and health care providers. The patient participation concept applies and provides me with a solid foundation towards my beliefs and values in my further practice as cardiothoracic surgery nurse practitioner. I will utilize the attributes to establish a good, trusting, respectful relationship with surgical patients by surrendering some power to patients by negotiating, sharing responsibility, and viewing patient equally. I will also share information and knowledge, provide education based on patients’ experiences, respect patients’ opinions, and expectations. Patient and the health care team will actively engage in intellectual and physical activities. Through this analysis, I am confident that the concept of patient participation will guide my future practice, it aligns with my health care beliefs and values. It provides benefit in the relationships between health care providers and the patient population. The patient participation concept has and will continue to set foundations and be the framework for the health care
Informed consent is a very serious decision a patient has to make when it comes to their health and consenting to procedures that are believed to cure or treat their current health status. It is important to address the effectiveness of the role a physician play in the informed consent process assuring that the patient has given truly informed consent and what safeguards can be put in place to assure the patient is exercising informed consent. Informed consent is based on the fact that the person consenting is a rational individual that is aware of the action to which he/she is consenting. Allen and McNamara (2011) notes that "On the standard understanding, the important elements of informed consent are the provision of information, the voluntariness of the choice and the competence of the chooser to make the choice— so the potential research participant should be provided with information relevant to the decision to participate, they should be able to choose freely about their participation and they should be competent to decide.
Participant must be safe and feel protected by the researcher whenever they sign he consent and agree to participate. Full explanations and information must be detailed to participants. To use easy words and simple language for details so that they will fully understand and to avoid miss understand of the
...f patients’ doctors recruited participants, patients may not ease to refuse participating a trial. Therefore recruitment may be better to be done by a person who does not normally treat the patients.
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