Table 7 Monitoring and evaluating public involvement
From: Public involvement in health research systems: a governance framework
Monitoring public involvement in research projects | ∙ The need for formal evaluation and reporting to show the value of public involvement [4, 47, 62] |
∙ Descriptions of approaches taken to monitoring public involvement by research organisations [5, 59] | |
∙ Criteria and indicators to support common understanding of expectations [16, 17] | |
Monitoring public involvement in organisations and systems | ∙ Need for organisations to develop and implement strategies to monitor and evaluate their performance [17] |
∙ Strategy for evaluating public involvement across the United Kingdom health research community, involving monitoring and evaluation by research organisations (funders and producers) of the public involvement they support, as well as review of members’, and the wider research sector’s, progress in fostering public involvement [63] | |
Critical reflection on monitoring and evaluation | ∙ Tensions regarding the appropriateness of evaluating public involvement [4] |
∙ Methodological difficulties in evaluating public involvement [40]; the influence of metrics on the interpretation and shape of public involvement practice [19] | |
∙ Challenges for adequate comprehension and valuation of the impacts of public involvement [4, 19, 61]; theorising ‘orders’ of change and the meaning of influence or impact [39] |