Previous Stages of The People's Review
Stage 1: Suggest a Question
All good reviews start with a good question. Everyday we make decisions about our health, and we are bombarded with information about how to be healthier, happier, fitter.... But, have you ever wondered about whether there is research to back up the things that you've been advised to do? We asked you to suggest questions we might use for The People's Review. You came up with some great questions.... 185 in total.
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This video from Charlene describes the types of questions we asked for.​​
Stage 1 is Now Closed
We only included the questions that could be answered with The People's Review. Some people suggested similar questions (great minds think alike, right?). Some of you came up with some great questions that unfortunately we can't answer in this project. For example if the question was not relatable to lots of people or if the question had already been answered with a systematic review (we don't want to waste our time doing a review on a question we already know the answer to, right?). In total 21 questions made it through to Stage 2: Choose the Question.
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Click here to see the list of questins we didn't bring forward to Stage 2 and the reasons why. ​
Stage 2: Choose the Question
​Thank you for voting on the question you want to answer with The People's Review. ​
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We will now collate your votes to come up with THE question.
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A really important part of the systematic review process is making sure that the question we tackle isn't already answered. We want to make sure that The People's Review tackles a question that answers a real gap in our knowledge. If we didn't do this then we might waste lots peoples time (and some money!) by trying to answer a question that has already been answered! This step helps us reduce research waste. Research waste shouldn’t happen, but it does. See here for more information on research waste.​
​In this video Patricia describes the process we will use to decide our review question. ​​​
Stage 2 is Now Closed
In Stage 1 the public suggested 185 brilliant health questions. More details available here. Then, in Stage 2 we brought forward 21 questions that people voted on in two rounds of surveys. In Round 1, 193 people let us know how much or how little they liked each question. Then, we went back to the public with three* possible options to rank in order of preference. 188 people ranked the questions, to decide the People's favourite question. ​
*Originally we planned for the public to rank the top 5 questions. But, on closer inspection, we found that some of our top-ranking questions had already been answered by previous research. See the list of questions from Stage 2 here.