Patient Engagement

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.
 

Project Leads: Skye Barbic & Shelly Ben-David

One in four young people in British Columbia (BC) experience a mental health issue each year. This project will develop methods to engage youth in health services research and system reform by exploring the digital divide. It has been identified that investments in health care technology may ... read more

Project Leads: Davina Banner & Sue Mills

Healthcare services and organizations are working to better meet the needs of patients and communities. One way to achieve this is to involve patients in research studies that help health care professionals make good decisions. This has become widely known as patient-oriented research (POR). As this kind ... read more

Project Leads: Erin Michalak, Steven Barnes

Online platforms can be a convenient, cost-effective and enjoyable way to learn about health research; however, not a lot of content is co-created by researchers and patients, which is a missed opportunity to potentially improve the quality of content and promote research engagement... read more

Project Leads: Braden Te Hiwi & Okanagan Nation

The Okanagan Nation Alliance (ONA) has identified mental health as a priority area for its communities. ONA governance and administration of mental health is very challenging because of an absence of data, and at other times only incomplete or partially relevant data is available. This study seeks to ... read more