Table 1 Chronological time line of all user involving activities in the Empowerment Project (Jan 2015-Jan 2018)
August 2014 | Focus group discussing the proposal |
February 2015 | Recruitment of co-researchers |
April 2015 | Two day introduction and training course |
May/June 2015 | Correspondence with co-researchers around role descriptions, the concept of empowerment and web-page development (following on from discussions had at the training course) |
August 2015 | One day interview training and discussion of interview guide for the qualitative interviews |
April 2015–April 2016 | Systematic literature review [19]. Two co-researchers participated in the selection of papers and co-authored journal article |
September 2015–March 2016 | Qualitative interviews, eleven of them with co-researchers as peer interviewers |
March 2016 | PI and co-researcher co-presented at conference |
March 2016 | Workshop where coding and analysis of interviews was discussed |
June 2016 | Workshop with initial qualitative analysis |
March 2016 – December 2016 | Systematic literature review [20]. One co-researcher co-authored the paper |
July 2016 | First analysis of qualitative data was discussed with co-researchers via email correspondence |
October 2016 | PI and Co-researcher co-presented at conference |
November 2016 | Workshop about preliminary findings for journal article [10] |
April 2017 – December 2017 | Writing of journal article with one co-researcher co-authoring the paper |
January–February 2017 | Recruitment of five new co-researchers |
February 2017 | Workshop about the development of the questionnaire |
March 2017 | Introduction day for new co-researcher group |
April 2017 | Workshop about the development of the questionnaire |
June 2017 | Workshop about the development of the questionnaire and potential supplementing questionnaire, discussion of recruitment for survey |
September 2017 | Workshop with academic researchers and co-researchers, discussing the experiences of involvement in the project and beginning recommendations for user-involvement in Denmark |
October 2017 | Summary of workshop and draft recommendations sent out to all co-researchers and academic researchers for feedback and input |
January 2018 | Workshop about questionnaire |