Graham J, Broom D, Whittaker A
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Health Expect. 2001 Dec;4(4):209-12. doi: 10.1046/j.1369-6513.2001.00134.x.
To understand barriers to obtaining input from consumers in developing public health research.
Documentation of a failed attempt at consumer consultation supplies information on barriers to effective involvement and conditions that must prevail to improve consultation.
People are keen to be heard in the formulation of health research. However, competing demands and limited resources make it difficult for community groups to allocate scarce resources to consultation. Sometimes research issues may seem 'academic' and thus remote from the urgent priorities of the people with whom researchers wish to consult. Consultation may require more time than researchers on limited budgets can afford.
Despite a general public health commitment to involving consumers in research development, obstacles to consultation make it difficult to incorporate it into the research agenda.
Researchers and funding bodies will need to allocate resources to consumer consultation if it is to become the rule rather than the exception in public health research.
了解在开展公共卫生研究过程中获取消费者意见的障碍。
记录一次失败的消费者咨询尝试,以提供有关有效参与的障碍以及改善咨询必须具备的条件的信息。
人们渴望在健康研究的制定过程中被倾听。然而,相互竞争的需求和有限的资源使社区团体难以将稀缺资源分配给咨询工作。有时研究问题可能看似“学术性”,因此与研究人员希望咨询的人群的紧迫优先事项相去甚远。咨询可能需要比预算有限的研究人员所能承受的更多时间。
尽管公共卫生领域普遍致力于让消费者参与研究开发,但咨询障碍使得难以将其纳入研究议程。
如果消费者咨询要成为公共卫生研究中的常规而非例外,研究人员和资助机构将需要为其分配资源。