Lead: Erin Michalak
Patient Engagement can be understood as meaningful and active collaboration in governance, priority setting, conducting research, and in summarizing, sharing, and putting the knowledge gained into action (i.e., knowledge translation).
It is important to note the term ‘patient,’ as applied here, is overarching and inclusive, referring to people with lived or personal experience of health conditions or issues, the people who support them, such as family members, friends and informal caregivers, and the communities from which they belong.
In this video, Stirling Bryan and Erin Michalak discuss the Methods Clusters, and how this Cluster identified its key priorities.
Runtime: 4:13
Consulting with researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, this Cluster:
Consulting with researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, this Cluster:
Browse the priorities and projects below, or use the interactive diagram to the right.
Browse the priorities and projects below.
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The objective of this project is to understand and dismantle the barriers to accessing digital information, research, and communication technologies for youth with mental illness in BC.
How do we involve a diverse range of patients and community members—particularly people who may face multiple barriers to taking part—such as people with complex medical conditions or who experience housing or food insecurity?
This project asks and aims to address these questions.
This project will develop and test five online educational modules with the aim of supporting engagement from diverse people in health research.
This study utilized syilx Okanagan cultural processes and protocols to engage syilx Okanagan patients in community discussions for priority setting and to inform decision making to address health care challenges for syilx Okanagan people
The Tapestry-Tool based project, “Methods for Supporting Diverse Patient Engagement in a Diverse World,” has released online educational modules that help health researchers learn how to best engage diverse people in health research.
The modules cover:
One of our projects, focusing on Diversity in Patient Engagement and led by Erin Michalak, has published two blog posts featuring their work.
In the first blog, learn more about this project in an interactive video format:
In the second blog, consider: how do you know you’re truly ready to engage with diverse populations, like LGBTQ2S+ people?
