Section | Description |
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Aim: | To collaboratively involve consumers as research partners at all trial stages |
Methods: | Recruitment occurred either during the previous feasibility study or at the initial stages of trial development. Consumers will be offered appropriate compensation [59] |
Results: | Consumers will contribute by: - Ensuring trial aims, methods, intervention components and outcomes are aligned with patient and public interests - Providing a consumer perspective and input for the intervention and its implementation - Contributing to and reviewing trial documents, materials and resources - Providing a consumer perspective and advocating for patients at trial Management and Steering Committee meetings - Chairing Steering Committee meetings - Planning and presenting at the nursing unit manager leadership one-day workshop - Interpreting findings and developing publications - Advising on the future upscale of the intervention |
Discussion: | Consumers have been embedded as feasible, with respect to: - Clinical and research knowledge - Consumers’ availability |