Funder: Internal funding

Start date: January 2013 End date: June 2014

PI: Sophie Staniszewska (Warwick)

Collaborators: Kate Seers (Warwick), Carole Mockford (Warwick), Jo Brett (Warwick), Rosemary Barber (Sheffield), Iveta Simera (Oxford), Doug Altman (Oxford), David Moher (Ottowa), Peter Littlejohns (Kings, formerly NICE), Victoria Thomas (NICE), Chris Morris (Exeter Medical School), Simon Denegri (INVOLVE).

Description: The reporting of patient and public involvement in health research needs significant enhancement. The GRIPP checklist developed by the RCN RI represents the first international attempt to enhance the quality of PPI reporting. This study will utilise the GRIPP checklist and develop GRIPP 2 by following the method and consensus process utilised by the EQUATOR Network, an international initiative that seeks to enhance the reliability and value of medical research by promoting transparent and accurate reporting of research studies. The aim of the GRIPP 2 checklist is to help researchers and service users improve the quality, content, detail, consistency, transparency, and completeness of their PPI reporting, thus

strengthening the PPI evidence base, and ultimately enabling a clearer understanding of what PPI works, for whom, why and in what circumstances.

Progress: The paper that underpins this work reporting the GRIPP checklist has been published. The study is complete including the Delphi and the consensus meeting. The final papers are being written.

Publications:

Staniszewska S, Brett J, Mockford C, Barber R (2011). The GRIPP checklist: Strengthening the quality and transparency of reporting for patient and public involvement in research. International Journal of Technology Assessment for Health Care, 27 (4):391-399.

Staniszewska S, Brett J, Seers K et al (2015). Developing guidance for reporting patient and public involvement in health research: A Delphi consensus study to develop GRIPP2-SF and GRIPP2-LF (Submission to BMJ)

Brett J, Staniszewska, Seers K et al (2015). Methods for developing guidance for reporting patient and public involvement in health research (Submission to BMJ)