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SynthesisJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2021

Identifying evidence of effectiveness in the co-creation of research: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the international healthcare literature.

Kristoffer Halvorsrud, Justyna Kucharska, Katherine Adlington, Katja Rüdell, Eva Brown Hajdukova, James Nazroo, Maria Haarmans, James Rhodes, Kamaldeep Bhui

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Synthesis in Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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117citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

117 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. How Do Participatory Citizenship Models Inform Co-production in Health Research? A Systematic Review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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  9. Evaluating the role and effectiveness of co-produced community-based mental health interventions that aim to reduce suicide among adults: A systematic review.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023
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  11. Co-creation of healthier food retail environments: A systematic review to explore the type of stakeholders and their motivations and stage of engagement.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Kristoffer HalvorsrudCentre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Justyna KucharskaCentre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Katherine AdlingtonEast London NHS Foundation Trust, City and Hackney Centre for Mental Health, Homerton Row, London, E9 6SR, UK.
Katja RüdellCentre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Eva Brown HajdukovaCentre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
James NazrooSociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Humanities, Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Maria HaarmansSociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Humanities, Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
James RhodesSociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester, Humanities, Bridgeford Street, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Kamaldeep BhuiCentre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTo investigate and address the evidence gap on the effectiveness of co-creation/production in international health research.

methodsAn initial systematic search of previous reviews published by 22 July 2017 in Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, Scopus and Web of Science. We extracted reported aims, elements and outcomes of co-creation/production from 50 reviews; however, reviews rarely tested effectiveness against intended outcomes. We therefore checked the reference lists in 13 included systematic reviews that cited quantitative studies involving the public/patients in the design and/or implementation of research projects to conduct meta-analyses on their effectiveness using standardized mean difference (SMD).

resultsTwenty-six primary studies were included, showing moderate positive effects for community functions (SMD = 0.56, 95%CI = 0.29-0.84, n = 11) and small positive effects for physical health (SMD = 0.25, 95%CI = 0.07-0.42, n = 9), health-promoting behaviour (SMD = 0.14, 95%CI = 0.03-0.26, n = 11), self-efficacy (SMD = 0.34, 95%CI = 0.01-0.67, n = 3) and health service access/receipt (SMD = 0.36, 95%CI = 0.21-0.52, n = 12). Non-academic stakeholders that co-created more than one research stage showed significantly favourable mental health outcomes. However, co-creation was rarely extended to later stages (evaluation/dissemination), with few studies specifically with ethnic minority groups.

conclusionsThe co-creation of research may improve several health-related outcomes and public health more broadly, but research is lacking on its longer term effects.

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EthnicityMinority GroupsDelivery of Health CareHumansco-creationco-designco-productionethnicityhealthmeta-analysissystematic review

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PMID31608396
PMCPMC8042368

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