The role of members of the PAG is to provide a PPIE voice to all aspects of ASPIRING. Specifically, by joining the ASPIRING PAG, members are agreeing to:
- Ensure that the Trial Management Group (TMG) and Trial Steering Committee (TSC) are regularly updated with the ASPIRING PAG’s views about the study.
- Help to ensure that information for potential participants is accessible and appropriate.
The responsibilities of members are:
- To offer advice on:
- methods of recruitment to ASPIRING
- design, language, content of information leaflets, videos, and informed consent forms
- methods of follow-up
- design, content, and accessibility of progress reports and newsletters for participants
- any other issues at the request of the TMG
- To be available to support patients and carers with decisions about the study, if required after they have contacted the study office with questions.
- If this occurs, the chief investigator’s team will the contact the ASPIRING PAG Chair, who will liaise with the PAG and seek a member to volunteer to contact the caller, having disguised their caller ID.
- To monitor inclusion (especially older, female, and other under-served groups).
- To interpret study results to help to identify themes that the researchers might have missed.
- To check the validity of conclusions from a PPIE perspective.
- To highlight the findings that are most relevant to patients and the public.