Grant: Patient-Oriented Research Collaboration Grants

While there is a shared understanding that the involvement of people with lived experience in research can increase the likelihood that healthcare research findings will be implemented [2], there are very few practical examples in the literature of how to go about this process [3]. As such, training, skill development and capacity building among researchers, clinicians, policy makers and people with lived experience is essential. In order to address this need for training, we are proposing to develop a Summer Research Institute in Suicide Prevention at the University of Ottawa, to be launched in the summer of 2017. The goal of this four-day event is to provide both suicide prevention researchers, clinicians, policy makers, trainees and people with lived experience with a shared body of knowledge and skills in patient-oriented suicidology research; to create collaborative links between these groups so that the perspectives, knowledge, and skills of each inform the work of the other; and, to develop strategic research priorities that will contribute to the knowledge base for patient-oriented suicide prevention research. By participating in this event, people with lived experience will build capacity and knowledge on what is health research, how to understand the results of health research; and, how to meaningfully participate in health research as collaborators. The primary outcome of this event will be, in collaboration with service users and caregivers, the creation of best practice guidelines for implementing patient-oriented research.