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O Gross1, N Garabedian2, C Richard3
1Health Education and Practices Laboratory (LEPS UR3412) University Sorbonne Paris Nord, 74 rue Marcel Cachin, 93017 Bobigny, France.
Background And Objectives:
In France, following the passing of a 2002 law, service user representatives (SURs) are part of hospital committees in charge of care quality and safety issues. Ten service user representatives (SURs) were recruited and trained as "peer researchers" to participate in all phases of a study aimed at outlining how patients experience hospital safety. This article aims to describe the study protocol and how peer researchers training was designed and implemented to prepare them to drive a qualitative and quantitative research. It also examines the challenges related to collaborative research and how these were resolved.
Methods:
The way our training was conceived belongs to the field of "design-based research", known for its pragmatic and collaborative scope, in which viewpoints of all participants are included. Our training was therefore based on peer researchers and research sponsors expectations, as well as on recommendations of the literature.
Results:
A 45-h training was held. While the program was meant to train peer researchers to respect scientific norms, it also aimed to improve their sense of self-legitimacy as they navigated their new role. Peer researchers were particularly eager to understand meaning behind the instructions, especially in the field of ethical and scientific norms. Various challenges occurred related to project organization, recruitment and peer researchers involvement. Some issues were overcome by learning how to share control over the research process.
Conclusion:
This experiment highlights the importance of a training program's duration and quality to prepare SURs for their roles as peer investigators and to create a group dynamic around a research project, even with SURs familiar with patient involvement and our research theme (safety issues). Trainers overcame hurdles by being adaptive and by using educational approaches. They also learned to include trainees' input, even when it forced them to reconsider their own assumptions.
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