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Study Design: Other, Development and initial validation of a PCOR engagement tool
Principal Investigator: Marc A. Cohen
Institution: University of Massachusetts Boston
PCORnet® Network Partner: External
Funder: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI); (project webpage)
Participating PCORnet® Clinical Research Networks: GPC, INSIGHT, PEDSnet, REACHnet, STAR
Therapeutic Area: Engagement Methods
Condition: Other; Science of Engagement Award to develop and validate an engagement tool on engagement quality and selected outcomes
Age Range: PCORI lead investigators and/or those who manage PCORI projects
Status: Not yet recruiting
Research Question(s):
- Can we develop a concise way to measure the extent to which researchers engaging older adults in research projects are doing so effectively and can we assign a score that represents a value for the quality of engagement?
- Having done this, can we then apply this new measure to score projects that are engaging older adults in research and see whether higher quality engagement scores are related to better short and medium term PCOR project outcomes?