Abstract
Patients1 are experts on their own lives and the ways in which an illness, injury, or disability affects their health, activity, and quality of life. With its longstanding foundations in participatory action research, patient engagement has been gaining momentum across health care and related research. This momentum is supported by investments from several key research and federal policy-related organizations, including the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Occupational therapy practitioners are uniquely positioned to champion patient collaborations. In this article, we discuss ways in which patient perspectives can be embraced in occupational therapy research, and we share insights from a research planning collaborative with adolescents and young adults that was led by occupational therapy researchers.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 731001 |
| Journal | American Journal of Occupational Therapy |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| State | Published - Feb 2019 |
Funding
This project was partially funded by PCORI, Pipeline-to-Proposal Awards, Tiers I–III (Contract 3414629; Project Lead: Carol Haywood), administered on behalf of PCORI by the Trailhead Institute. Carol Haywood is funded in her postdoctoral fellowship by a grant from the Department of Education, NIDILRR (H133P130013, PI: Allen Heinemann, PhD). The content of this article is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the views of PCORI, its Board of Governors or Methodology Committee, other Pipeline Awardees, the Trailhead Institute, or the Department of Education.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Occupational Therapy