Research Involvement and Engagement
Questions for more insightful and useful analyses of barriers and facilitators to public involvement and engagement in health research: a critical narrative review
Abstract Background Public involvement and engagement in health research is widely promoted yet remains challenging and unevenly practised across health research contexts. To explain this, it has become popular to analyse so-called barriers to and facilitators of involvement. However, critics argue that such analyses are simplistic and generate little knowledge to guide action. This review critically appraises the typical form of barrier analysis concerned with public involvement in health research and proposes eig …