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“Nothing about us without us” has become a common refrain over the past decade as patients and communities have pushed for a greater say in health care research and decision-making. But now some fear pandemic expediencies are eroding hard-won advances in patient partnership.
COVID-19 had a “catastrophic” impact on patient engagement in health research, says Bertrand Lebouché, a clinician-researcher at McGill University Health Centre.
Prior to the pandemic, funding bodies increasingly required investigators to involve patients throughout the research process from setting priorities to translating results into practice. “It gives an opportunity for the patient to become part of the solution,” says Lebouché.
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McGill University
Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from McGill University, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.
The researchers set out to study how factors such as people’s socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.
The team received a $70,000 grant from the McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity in June 2020 to pursue this work. In March they published two separate peer-reviewed studies, in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (IJIR) and BJPsych Open.