Patient and public involvement in mental health research: En route to maturity?

Photovoice was the method of choice used by Weinstein and colleagues when working with individuals with long‐term mental illness, obesity and living in supportive housing. There are some careful explorations of appropriate methods to use with different and often marginalized groups and communities; for example, Corvin et al. examined the application of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to inform the augmentation and implementation of an evidence‐based chronic disease self‐management programme for underserved Latinos living with both minor depression and chronic illness. Thomas and colleagues report an honest reflection of working with people from low‐income backgrounds throughout a research process; Warner et al outline a method of engaging with refugees at the early stages of research; Dewa et al explore the methods and the impact of working co‐productively with young people and saw significant impact on the research, researchers and co‐researchers.