RECOVER Injury Research Centre

Outcomes from consumer and community consultation

Learn more about RECOVER's consumer and community involvement activities. 

  1. Consumer involvement case studies
  2. 2020 Consumer & Community Forum
  3. 2019 Consumer & Community Forum
  4. Consumer chatbot activity
  5. Modification of the Pain ROADMAP app for young people
  6. Engaging Consumers and Community Members across the Research Spectrum: A Stepped Approach to Implementation by the RECOVER Injury Research Centre
  7. Virtual reality enabled intervention for pain management
  1. ‘6-minute Walk Test in chronic pain’ study: consumer review of recruitment materials
  2. Grow Stronger mobile app with a gamification feature
  3. Contributing consumer experiences and ideas for study to test how to choose the right treatment for the right person
  4. PRioRTI: A multi-centre randomised placebo-controlled trial of pregabalin to prevent chronic pain after whiplash injury.
  5. Co-design, development and feasibility of a consumer-driven immersive virtual reality tool for upper limb rehabilitation in the community
  6. Consumer Roundtable 2022: Bringing researchers to the consumer table to explore telehealth

8. ‘6-minute Walk Test in chronic pain’ study: consumer review of recruitment materials

The consultation activity

We invited consumers with the experience of persistent pain to provide suggestions to improve recruitment strategies and the reach for an existing research project; ‘6-minute Walk Test in chronic pain’ study.

The project aims to recruit people with pain to participate in a study designed to trial a 6-minute walk test.

Recruitment for the study had been slow, and we hope to incorporate some suggestions from consumers to increase interest in the project.

Consumers participated in a one-off consultation activity in the research execution phase - in this case during the recruitment of participants.

Consumers provided feedback on the study advertisements and information page, including what is involved in participating in the study.

Consumers provided written feedback on three materials:

  • The advertisements that were running on Facebook and Twitter to promote the project
  • The “information page” which gives potential participants an overview of the project requirements.
  • The “what is involved” section of the information page.

Feedback

Consumer made a number of suggestions around the wording of the advertisements, the image used and the re-ordering and highlighting different aspects of the study information page. The researchers incorporated many of the consumer suggestions.

Thank you to those consumers who contributed to this activity.