TY - JOUR
AU - Kendall, Elizabeth
AB - INTRODUCTIONCitizens are a potentially vast and relatively untapped resource for solving complex societal problems (Rowbotham et al., 2019). When citizens participate and are engaged in research, they bring real‐world insight and perspective, while simultaneously increasing recruitment and retention of other citizens (Greenhalgh et al., 2019). Unsurprisingly, there is increasing interest and emphasis on citizen engagement in research across government, health services, industry, and academia (Bonny et al., 2009). The legislative imperative for engaging citizens in health research is well established under “Standard 2: Partnering with consumers” in the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare (2017) (Ehrlich et al., 2020). Recent implementation of consumer and community advisory panels by both the NHMRC and MRFF further highlights the importance for health researchers to build capacity and capability to engage consumers in research. Within the fields of health research, occupational therapists are well placed to support citizen engagement, due to their knowledge of person‐centred practice and close partnership with patients to achieve positive health outcomes (Layton, 2014; Pereira et al., 2020). However, “consumer engagement in occupational therapy research may be in its infancy” (Cox et al., 2021).The rise of the expert consumer and the increasing emphasis placed on the importance of citizen voices in health research (Layton, 2014) 
TI - The Dignity Project Framework: An extreme citizen science framework in occupational therapy and rehabilitation research
JO - Australian Occupational Therapy Journal
DO - 10.1111/1440-1630.12847
DA - 2022-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-dignity-project-framework-an-extreme-citizen-science-framework-in-gmyyVR6Mgo
SP - 742
EP - 752
VL - 69
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
ER -