Comparing consultative versus collaborative ways patients, clinicians, and the public partner with health teams.

Is this trial a fit for you?

A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.

What this trial studies

This is a stratified randomized trial that assigns patient, public, and clinician involvement (PPCI) participants to either a Consultative or a Collaborative approach while they work on one of three real qualitative interview projects (pediatric mental health, cancer screening, or serious illness). Participants will be engaged across study stages including design, data collection, analysis, and dissemination using detailed guides for each PPCI approach. The trial measures partner-reported outcomes such as engagement, trust, and patient-centeredness of the research. The investigators hypothesize the Collaborative approach will yield higher engagement, trust, and patient-centeredness, particularly among historically underrepresented groups.

Why it matters

Who can join: the full rules

Inclusion criteria \& Exclusion criteria across three sub-specialties:

Pediatric mental health

Inclusion:

* Adults aged ≥18 years
* Can communicate in English
* Able to take part in research activities via a computer or a smartphone
* Patients, care partners, clinicians, other healthcare professionals, teachers and school staff, health policy experts, and community members
* Has lived experience or professional expertise relating to pediatric mental health

Exclusion:

* Children \<18 years
* Cannot communicate in English
* Adults unable to provide verbal consent
* Prisoners
* Unable to take part in research activities via a computer or a smartphone

Generalized cancer screening

Inclusion:

* Adults aged ≥21 years
* Can communicate in English
* Able to take part in research activities via a computer or a smartphone
* Patients, care partners, clinicians, other healthcare professionals, health policy experts, and community members
* Is eligible for population-based cancer screening tests (breast, prostate, cervical, colorectal cancer), or has lived experience or professional expertise relating to generalized cancer screening

Exclusion:

* Children \<18 years
* Cannot communicate in English
* Adults unable to provide verbal consent
* Prisoners
* Unable to take part in research activities via a computer or a smartphone

Serious illness experience

Inclusion:

* Adults aged ≥18 years
* Can communicate in English
* Able to take part in research activities via a computer or a smartphone
* Patients, care partners, clinicians, other healthcare professionals, health policy experts, and community members
* Has lived experience or professional expertise relating to serious illness (defined as "a health condition that carries a high risk of mortality and either negatively impacts a person's daily functioning or quality of life or excessively strains his or her caregivers."

Exclusion:

* Children \<18 years
* Cannot communicate in English
* Adults unable to provide verbal consent
* Prisoners
* Unable to take part in research activities via a computer or a smartphone

Note: We will not specifically exclude pregnant women, so they may be included incidentally.

Where it's running

• Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
  Hanover, New Hampshire, United States Recruiting
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
  Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States Recruiting

Study contacts

• Study coordinator: Catherine Saunders, Assistant Professor of Medicine, PhD, MPH
• Email: Catherine.Hylas.Saunders@dartmouth.edu
• Phone: 603-650-5402

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How to take part

1. Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
2. Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
3. Contact the study coordinator or principal investigator to ask for pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.