Reihe : Public engagement with research. Part 3: Sharing power and building trust through partnering with communities in primary care research

BACKGROUND: 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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

The European journal of general practice - 30(2024), 1 vom: 28. Apr., Seite 2328707

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Drinkwater, Jessica [VerfasserIn]
Farr, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
Hickey, Gary [VerfasserIn]
Van Vliet, Esther [VerfasserIn]
Söderholm Werkö, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Klingmann, Ingrid [VerfasserIn]
Blackburn, Steven [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Co-production
Journal Article
Participatory research
Power sharing
Public engagement

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Date Completed 29.03.2024

Date Revised 03.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/13814788.2024.2328707

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370359828