Zayas-Cabán Teresa, Rogers Courtney C
National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, BG 38A RM 4S415, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD, 20894, USA.
University of Virginia, Department of Systems and Information Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Olsson Hall, 151 Engineer's Way, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA.
Appl Ergon. 2025 May;125:104458. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104458. Epub 2024 Dec 30.
Patient ergonomics advances understanding of patient work to support individuals in managing health and health care, which can be expanded to include health research. While health research enables improvements in care delivery and health outcomes, participant recruitment, enrollment, and retention challenges hamper effective research participation, impede success of research studies, and influence the validity and generalizability of findings. Recent trends in health research create new opportunities to engage patients in research but require careful attention to patient ergonomics and human factors considerations to ensure they successfully address participant needs and contexts. This article describes the research participation process and related patient ergonomics considerations, summarizes patient ergonomic factors identified in the literature that influence participation, discusses how patient ergonomics can be expanded to understand and address challenges to health research participation using two exemplar research programs, and identifies opportunities to include health research participation as part of patient ergonomics.
患者工效学增进了对患者工作的理解，以支持个人管理健康和医疗保健，这可以扩展到包括健康研究。虽然健康研究能够改善护理服务和健康结果，但参与者招募、入组和留存方面的挑战阻碍了有效的研究参与，妨碍了研究的成功，并影响研究结果的有效性和普遍性。健康研究的最新趋势为让患者参与研究创造了新机会，但需要仔细考虑患者工效学和人为因素，以确保这些机会能够成功满足参与者的需求和背景。本文描述了研究参与过程以及相关的患者工效学考虑因素，总结了文献中确定的影响参与的患者工效学因素，讨论了如何通过两个示例研究项目扩展患者工效学以理解和应对健康研究参与面临的挑战，并确定了将健康研究参与纳入患者工效学的机会。
