Patient and public involvement in research (PPI) is when you ask patients and members of the public to get involved as equals in research, especially health-related research. The aim is to create a project that is both meaningful and that will have a positive impact on the future treatment of those with the target condition. It is all very well a researcher thinking about what might be helpful, but often those who are going through the lived experience of the condition have very different ideas. Research must be meaningful and relevant to those it is trying to help.
When carrying out research there are steps that we have to go through. These steps create the research cycle, as shown in Figure 1. PPI can happen at any stage of this research cycle.
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