TY - JOUR AU - Vojtila, Lenka AU - Ashfaq, Iqra AU - Ampofo, Augustina AU - Dawson, Danielle AU - Selby, Peter PY - 2021 DA - 2021/01/08 TI - Engaging a person with lived experience of mental illness in a collaborative care model feasibility study JO - Research Involvement and Engagement SP - 5 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Researchers have explored different types of treatment to help people with a mental illness with other problems they might be experiencing, such as their health condition and quality of life. Care models that involve many different health care providers working together to provide complete physical and mental health care are becoming popular. There has been a push from the research community to understand the value of including people with lived experience in such programs. While research suggests that people with lived experience may help a patient’s treatment, there is little evidence on including them in a team based program. This paper describes how our research team included a person with lived experience of psychosis in both the research and care process. We list some guiding principles we used to work through some of the common challenges that are mentioned in research. Lastly, experiences from the research team, lessons learned, and a personal statement from the person with lived experience (AA) are provided to help future researchers and people with lived experience collaborate in research and healthcare. SN - 2056-7529 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-020-00247-w DO - 10.1186/s40900-020-00247-w ID - Vojtila2021 ER -