Public involvement in the planning, development and implementation of community health services: A scoping review of public involvement methods

Abstract

Services have improved due to public involvement in the planning, development, and implementation of health services. A wide range of public involvement methods, based on highly diversified methodological approaches and conceptualisations, have been developed. However, the extensive growth of new and different involvement methods lacks consistency and promotes uncertainty about which methods to apply when, how, and why. Aiming to identify, chart and summarise public involvement methods in the planning, development and implementation of community health services, we conducted a systematic search in April 2021. Seven databases were searched: CINAHL, Cochrane, Embase, PsycINFO, PubMed, ProQuest and Scopus. The systematic facet search corresponded with the PCC framework: Patient (P), Concept (C) and Context (C).A descriptive synthesis and a thematic analysis of included studies were conducted. Thirty-nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Two main categories of public involvement methods were identified: multiple methods approaches and single method approaches involving a variety of involvement activities. The characteristics of the two categories of methods were coded in accordance with methodological approach, activity and facilitation technique. The majority of the studies` methodological approach was either participatory or community-based.A variety of techniques to facilitate group discussions, sharing of ideas, and group processes were used. The results provide an overview of the characteristics of different public involvement methods, which may inform agencies and practitioners in choosing appropriate methods to qualify the public involvement in planning, developing, and implementing community health services. Further research is needed on how to manage public involvement in the implementation of community health services. In addition, rigorous evaluation studies of the impact of public involvement methods are needed.

The added value and unintended negative consequences of public involvement processes in the planning, development and implementation of community health services: Results from a thematic synthesis

“…Prior to the thematic synthesis, we conducted a systematic literature search inspired by the framework developed by Arksey and O'Malley 13 and advanced by Levac et al 14 regarding the literature on public involvement. As mentioned in the Introduction, the results of Part 1 of the review are presented in a scoping review article by Pedersen et al 12 .…”

“…regarding the literature on public involvement. As mentioned in the Introduction, the results of Part 1 of the review are presented in a scoping review article by Pedersen et al 12 …”

“…This current article is Part 2 of a scoping review. Results of Part 1 are presented in an article by Pedersen et al 12 and provides a comprehensive overview of the research literature on public involvement in the planning, development and implementation of community health services. In the first part of the review, we examined and characterised public involvement methods.…”

The role of the community pharmacist in fall prevention

“…[59][60][61][62] Diverse barriers for the implementation of fall prevention services in these wide-range of settings have been identified and include: lack of time, lack of reimbursement, patient noncompliance, incomprehensible protocols for implementation, limited 1 sta knowledge and skills, administrative load, poor communication between involved health care providers, and lack of generalizability of research models to real-world. 54,[63][64][65] Besides the aforementioned barriers, pharmacists may encounter specific pharmacy-related barriers during the provision of fall prevention. These may be similar to those found for the provision of certain cognitive pharmaceutical services (CPS), such as medication review services.…”

“…In this thesis, patients' perspectives on fall prevention services were studied during development of the service, prior to implementation and during implementation. 65 To develop and implement a sustainable fall prevention service, insight in patient needs is of utmost importance. Patients indicated that they expected to be proactively informed by their pharmacy on fall risk-increasing drug properties, but that they were not expecting from pharmacists to be educated on other fall risk factors (Chapter 3).…”