What Are the Best Practices for Co-Creating Patient-Facing Educational Materials? A Scoping Review of the Literature
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Identifying the Research Question
2.2. Identifying the Relevant Literature
2.3. Selecting the Literature
2.4. Charting the Data
2.5. Collating, Summarizing, and Reporting Results
2.6. Synthesis of Results
2.7. Patient and Public Involvement
3. Results
3.1. Characteristics of Identified Studies on Co-Creation of PEMs
3.2. Frameworks Employed to Co-Create PEMs
3.3. Approaches to Evaluate and Measure Effectiveness of Co-Created PEMs
3.4. Author-Reported Strengths and Limitations of Co-Creation
3.5. Synthesis of Findings to Identify ‘Best Practices’ for Co-Creating PEMs
4. Discussion
Strengths and Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Measure | Count | Reference(s) |
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Qualitative (constructivist) | 15 | [12,13,18,21,28,29,31,32,34,41,44,45,46,50,51] |
Study-specific questionnaire | 8 | [8,10,12,14,22,35,46,47] |
Web traffic/usage data | 4 | [34,35,38,49] |
Validated disease-specific instrument 1 | 4 | [15,27,34,50] |
Validated readability algorithm 2 | 4 | [24,33,36,48] |
Validated health literacy instrument 3 | 3 | [12,38,46] |
Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) | 3 | [24,36,48] |
System Usability Scale (SUS) | 2 | [10,37] |
Mobile Applications Rating Scale (MARS) | 1 | [48] |
Patient Activation Measure (PAM) | 1 | [38] |
Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS) | 1 | [10] |
International Patient Decision Aids Standards (IPDAS) | 1 | [15] |
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McDonald, I.R.; Blocker, E.S.; Weyman, E.A.; Smith, N.; Dwyer, A.A. What Are the Best Practices for Co-Creating Patient-Facing Educational Materials? A Scoping Review of the Literature. Healthcare 2023, 11, 2615. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192615
McDonald IR, Blocker ES, Weyman EA, Smith N, Dwyer AA. What Are the Best Practices for Co-Creating Patient-Facing Educational Materials? A Scoping Review of the Literature. Healthcare. 2023; 11(19):2615. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192615
Chicago/Turabian StyleMcDonald, Isabella R., Elizabeth S. Blocker, Elizabeth A. Weyman, Neil Smith, and Andrew A. Dwyer. 2023. "What Are the Best Practices for Co-Creating Patient-Facing Educational Materials? A Scoping Review of the Literature" Healthcare 11, no. 19: 2615. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192615