NIHR Webinar Series: Involving children and young people in an evidence synthesis around prevention of childhood obesity

What is the webinar series about?

Patient and public involvement is a prerequisite for all research funded by NIHR. It can enhance the relevance and quality of research and help build trust in the research and its outcomes.

But how do we do it effectively? What lessons can we learn from when things didn’t go as well as intended? And how do the UK public involvement standards find expression in practice?

This webinar series, drawing on the experiences of public contributors and researchers, will showcase examples of patient and public involvement in NIHR funded research.

What is the purpose?

The webinar series will highlight:

• How the UK public involvement standards find expression in practice
• What factors contributed to successful, or otherwise, patient and public involvement
• How patients and public informed decision-making

Who is the audience for the webinar series?

The webinar series will be suitable for people with varying levels of experience of patient and public involvement in research, including:

• Researchers
• Patients and public
• Outreach staff

Our next webinar of the series is called “Involving children and young people in an evidence synthesis around prevention of childhood obesity”

Our speakers will be:

• Professor Julian Higgins and Lucy Condon from University of Bristol
• Madeleine Coleman and Elizabeth Sheldrick, members of the Bristol’s Generation R Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG)

About this event:

In this session we will describe how we approached this project, working closely with members of the Bristol Young People’s Advisory Group (YPAG).

Key aspects of our process were:

• The inclusion of two YPAG members in the project’s Advisory Group
• Focus groups with children and young people (some with their parents), and with school teachers, to develop our analysis strategy
• Involvement of 35 children and young people in the coding of 250 interventions that had been evaluated across the included studies