Although the importance of community engagement in research has been
previously established, there are few evidence-based approaches for measuring the level of community engagement in research projects. Evaluation of patiet and public involvement (PPI) is important to ensure that such involvement activities are conducted with a good degree of quality and in a meaningful way.
How best to evaluate PPI remains challenging, given the complex landscape
of diverse terminology and multiple methods. This highlights a need for more
robust and standardised methods to evaluate PPI, which also involve patients
and public members as part of their design process. To meet this need, a self-report questionnaire has been developed, based on the 4Pi National Involvement Standards, to assess service users’ (SU’s) and carers’ experiences of PPI. Patient and public involvement (PPI) members, researchers and quality improvement staff share their reflections on the new questionnaire and accompanying guide in a new blog.
The questionnaire aims to capture service users’ (SU’s) and carers’ views on their experiences of undertaking patient and public involvement (PPI) activities. As such, the tool can be used as part of an evaluation of PPI, that is systematic, and applicable in a wide variety of contexts, which is grounded in the experiences of SUs and carers themselves.
Find more and access the freely available 4Pi tool and the guide on the KIS website, here.