Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research
AbstractBackground This article focuses on potential strategies to support primary care researchers in working in partnership with the public and healthcare professionals. Partnership working can potentially to improve the relevance and usefulness of research and ensure better research and health ou...
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| author | Jessica Drinkwater Michelle Farr Gary Hickey Esther Van Vliet Sophie Söderholm Werkö Ingrid Klingmann Steven Blackburn |
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| description | AbstractBackground This article focuses on potential strategies to support primary care researchers in working in partnership with the public and healthcare professionals. Partnership working can potentially to improve the relevance and usefulness of research and ensure better research and health outcomes.Discussion We describe what we mean by partnership working and the importance of reflecting on power and building trusting relationships. To share power in partnership working, it is essential to critically reflect on the multiple dimensions of power, their manifestations, and your own power. Power can influence relationships and therefore, it is essential to build trust with partners. Next, we outline how the context of primary care research and decisions about who you work with and how to work together, are vital considerations that are imbued with power. Lastly, we suggest different ways of working in partnership to address different dimensions of power. We provide examples from primary care research across Europe regarding how to recognise, tackle, and challenge, invisible, hidden and visible power.Conclusion We conclude by proposing three calls to actions to encourage researchers working in primary care to consider the multiple dimensions of power and move towards partnership working. First is to use participatory methods to improve the inclusivity of your research. Second is to include patients and the public in decisions about the design, delivery and development of research and its outcomes. Third is to address various systemic and institutional barriers which hinder partnership working. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-71ccc164dcf147dba63beb912fcf924e2024-04-17T10:01:03ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEuropean Journal of General Practice1381-47881751-14022024-12-0130110.1080/13814788.2024.2328707Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care researchJessica Drinkwater0Michelle Farr1Gary Hickey2Esther Van Vliet3Sophie Söderholm Werkö4Ingrid Klingmann5Steven Blackburn6Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research, University of Manchester, United KingdomThe National Institute for Health and Care Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West) at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, United KingdomAgora Digital Centre, School of Healthcare Enterprise and Innovation, University of Southampton, United KingdomKnowledge Transfer Office, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsThe Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services, Stockholm, SwedenEuropean Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP), Brussels, BelgiumInstitute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, United KingdomAbstractBackground This article focuses on potential strategies to support primary care researchers in working in partnership with the public and healthcare professionals. Partnership working can potentially to improve the relevance and usefulness of research and ensure better research and health outcomes.Discussion We describe what we mean by partnership working and the importance of reflecting on power and building trusting relationships. To share power in partnership working, it is essential to critically reflect on the multiple dimensions of power, their manifestations, and your own power. Power can influence relationships and therefore, it is essential to build trust with partners. Next, we outline how the context of primary care research and decisions about who you work with and how to work together, are vital considerations that are imbued with power. Lastly, we suggest different ways of working in partnership to address different dimensions of power. We provide examples from primary care research across Europe regarding how to recognise, tackle, and challenge, invisible, hidden and visible power.Conclusion We conclude by proposing three calls to actions to encourage researchers working in primary care to consider the multiple dimensions of power and move towards partnership working. First is to use participatory methods to improve the inclusivity of your research. Second is to include patients and the public in decisions about the design, delivery and development of research and its outcomes. Third is to address various systemic and institutional barriers which hinder partnership working.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/13814788.2024.2328707Participatory researchpublic engagementCo-productionpower sharing |
| spellingShingle | Jessica Drinkwater Michelle Farr Gary Hickey Esther Van Vliet Sophie Söderholm Werkö Ingrid Klingmann Steven Blackburn Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research European Journal of General Practice Participatory research public engagement Co-production power sharing |
| title | Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research |
| title_full | Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research |
| title_fullStr | Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research |
| title_full_unstemmed | Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research |
| title_short | Series: Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research |
| title_sort | series public engagement with research part 3 sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research |
| topic | Participatory research public engagement Co-production power sharing |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/13814788.2024.2328707 |
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