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PCORI and RAND Project to Evaluate Measures of Patient and Stakeholder Engagement

Date: 
October 13, 2020
Blog Topics: 
Evaluating Our Work,
Research

At PCORI, we have made great strides in making the case for engagement in research, and in showing practical ways to incorporate patients and other stakeholders seamlessly into research teams. To continue moving forward, we are now examining the best ways to systematically measure aspects of engagement to help us identify successful practices for engagement in multi-stakeholder research teams.

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PCORI seeks to advance the use of engagement measures to ultimately produce information about how to best prepare teams to work with one another, how well stakeholders and researchers are working together, and how meaningful patient and stakeholder engagement is to the planning, conduct, dissemination, and use of health research. To truly understand how to engage effectively, we must be able to make comparisons between different approaches. In turn, we believe effective engagement measures will help research teams, PCORI-funded and otherwise, understand and improve how they work together.

Engagement Measures Landscape Review and Gap Analysis

Through this project, PCORI, RAND, and the stakeholders working with us hope to answer:

  • What aspects of engagement should be measured?
  • What measure characteristics are important, and why?
  • What are the existing measures of engagement and their characteristics?
  • What new or revised measures are needed?
  • How can existing measures be used or refined through PCORI’s work?

What We Are Doing

PCORI commissioned this project—Engagement Measures Landscape Review and Gap Analysis—with an expert research team from the RAND Corporation to identify and assess existing measures for patient and stakeholder engagement in health research.

We know from work of other research teams that few measures for engagement exist. What is unique about our project is its emphasis on the gaps—understanding specifically where new or better measures are needed and considering how can PCORI fill those gaps. This includes learning where there are important aspects of engagement without adequate measures, carefully considering whose perspectives are captured in measures, how measures are used by different stakeholders, and identifying opportunities to improve measures that may be challenging to use and understand.

The results will help PCORI encourage the use of appropriate measures where available, and support the development or refinement of measures that address the most important gaps in engagement measurement for a range of stakeholders.

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How We Will Do It

The project team has already convened two advisory groups comprised of patients, clinicians, researchers, industry leaders, and research funders to guide our work. We are also conducting qualitative research with key informants from nine different stakeholder communities.

The project team is engaging these groups—just as on any PCORI-funded project—to understand what they believe is important to measure and why. We are also asking stakeholders to tell us what attributes are most important for evaluating the quality and usefulness of a measure. For instance, is it that the measure was developed with patient input, or that it has been thoroughly tested?  

RAND will search and analyze peer-reviewed and grey literature—materials and research produced by organizations outside of traditional commercial or academic publishing—in health research and in related research fields from domestic and international settings.

The landscape review will identify quantitative and qualitative measures in at least four major aspects of engagement related to all stages and activities of the research process:

  • The context in which the engagement occurs, including the research setting and types of projects
  • The structural components of engagement, including who is engaged, how decisions are made, and the purpose of engagement
  • The process through which engagement occurs, including when and how partners engage and how they contribute to health research
  • The results of engaging patients and stakeholders in health research, including their contribution to the research design and conduct.

Finally, our stakeholder advisory group will provide input on the existing and desired measures for engagement using the priority attributes identified at the start of the project.

Influencing the Science of Engagement

We are excited about this latest effort, which we hope will set a clear path to the use and development of measures that help to identify successful approaches for engaging patients and other stakeholders in research. It is an important part of our ongoing movement toward research that answers questions most important to patients and those who care for them.

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Important to measure the

Sabina Gesell October 13, 2020 2:57 pm

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Important to measure the personal benefit patients receive from being part of the research project. Many patients tell us being part of our PCORI project was part of their healing after a stroke, a way to deal constructively with their grief and anger, empowering.
Would also measure how much they feel they had impact on decisions.

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This work is vital to

Dave White October 13, 2020 7:49 pm

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This work is vital to advancing the science of engaging patients in research. I look forward to hearing more!

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This is very exciting! As a

Diane Mastnardo October 13, 2020 11:27 pm

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This is very exciting! As a patient and non-traditional clinician (licensed massage therapist), I am very interested in learning about how patients and non-academic clinicians are able to partner with PCORI to help fund the questions in the communities we engage.

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Check out Family Voices

Lauren Agoratus October 14, 2020 10:26 am

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Check out Family Voices framework/domains for patient engagement at http://familyvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Assessment-of-Family-...

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As an engaged Patient Partner

janice Tufte October 14, 2020 2:00 pm

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As an engaged Patient Partner involved with measurement activities for over four years now, I am looking forward to see what develops out of this group. A paper recently published in NAM perspectives points to the fact that little work has been commenced regarding looking at PFE, this paper primarily focuses on health equity and PFE. https://nam.edu/patient-and-family-engaged-care-an-essential-element-of-... important part to address in the advisory groups.

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I am interested in coming

Karen Solomon E... October 18, 2020 4:06 pm

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I am interested in coming involved with patient engagement research. Can you please direct or provide the information that can assist me. Thank you!

Karen Solomon Edwards

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Having the right individual

Marlene Peters-... October 14, 2020 5:30 pm

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Having the right individual engage patients and stakeholders is essential when discussing research projects. This is a very important and timely topic.

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Great effort to advance the

Jeanette Valent... October 16, 2020 2:24 pm

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Great effort to advance the science of engagement in patient-centered outcomes research. Will the project address successful approaches to including culturally and linguistically diverse populations? So important and so challenging. Learn how we pursued inclusion of Mexican immigrants in developing a stakeholder group to address postpartum depression in New Jersey with a PCORI Pipeline to Proposal award:

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818012-9.00007-1

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This is incredibly important

Susan Rawl October 16, 2020 2:55 pm

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This is incredibly important work that will help new (and senior) investigators understand the important metrics that can be used to assess how well they are doing with engagement. Only way to get better is to assess what is, and is not, working well. Thank you for doing this!

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Excellent endeavor. As a

Gwen Mayes October 20, 2020 2:47 pm

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Excellent endeavor. As a lifelong patient and health policy follower, it is remarkable the progress being made in patient engagement and the shift from a less paternalistic, to a more holistic and patient-centered mindset especially in the development of devices and drugs. Thank you for your effort.

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Hopefully we are measuring

Danny van Leeuwen November 2, 2020 6:41 am

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Hopefully we are measuring organizational and leader (PI, Dept) readiness to engage. Infrastructure, budgeting etc

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Author(s): 

Lauren Fayish, MPH

Program Officer, Evaluation and Analysis
Evaluation and Analysis

Sameer M. Siddiqi, PhD

Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Thomas Concannon, PhD

Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation

Laura Forsythe, PhD, MPH

Director, Evaluation and Analysis
Evaluation and Analysis

Kristin L. Carman, PhD, MA

Director, Public and Patient Engagement
Public and Patient Engagement

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