{"id":1688,"date":"2024-07-04T16:15:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T16:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/perc\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2024-07-08T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:18:31","slug":"i-sound-like-darth-vader-and-i-cough-up-fur-balls-how-people-living-with-airway-stenosis-have-informed-my-research-career-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/perc\/2024\/07\/04\/i-sound-like-darth-vader-and-i-cough-up-fur-balls-how-people-living-with-airway-stenosis-have-informed-my-research-career-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI sound like Darth Vader and I cough up fur balls\u201d How people living with Airway Stenosis have informed my research career so far."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/perc\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/perc\/2024\/07\/04\/i-sound-like-darth-vader-and-i-cough-up-fur-balls-how-people-living-with-airway-stenosis-have-informed-my-research-career-so-far\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>In conversation with: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/people\/g.cluni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Gemma Clunie<\/a>, Senior Clinical Academic Speech and Language Therapist w<\/strong><strong>orking within: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/department-surgery-cancer\/research\/surgery\/groups\/msk-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sackler MSK Lab, Surgery &amp; Cancer \u00a0<\/a><\/span><strong>and<\/strong> <strong>PERC Fellow (2024)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1703\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/perc\/files\/2024\/07\/041219_DG_ICNHS_AHSC-025-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What is your research project about and what stage are you at? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Airway stenosis (AS) is a narrowing of the windpipe between throat and lungs. People with AS experience a range of distressing symptoms such as shortness of breath, wheeziness, a hoarse voice and swallowing difficulties. Many patients have complicated surgery to widen their throat and improve their breathing. The picture included below shows one of my PhD research participants immediately after this surgery. He has his own blog and photo diary that can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/leeaspland.com\/.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 No one knows how this affects their voice and swallowing but patients told me they had problems.\u00a0 I investigated these voice and swallowing problems during my PhD. I am now evaluating the impact of my work and continuing to disseminate the results of my research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1696\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/perc\/files\/2024\/07\/PostOp-pres-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What did you want patients\/the public to help you with?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">I wanted patients\/the public to both help me to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">design my research so that it was relevant to their lived experience and to a question they wanted to be answered in relation to living with AS; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">continue to advise me as my research project continued.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">It was important to me that the research project I carried out had real world relevance and was focused on a gap that patients themselves had identified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Who did you involve and how did you find them?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">I applied for funding from the \u201cEnabling Involvement Fund\u201d through the NIHR Research Design Service (now sadly defunct) and used the money to hold a focus group with patients and carers who had participated in some previous co-design work within our clinical service at the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction (NCAR) at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. These patients had been treated for their AS at NCAR. This group became my patient advisory group, joined by another research-experienced patient advisor who runs an online support group for AS with over 7000 members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What kind of activity did you undertake to gain insights about your research from public contributors? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">I ran a focus group (in-person) to discuss my research ideas, and ask the patients\/carers what was important to them in relation to AS, voice and swallowing. \u00a0The \u201cEnabling Involvement Fund\u201d funding meant that I was able to pay for their time, travel and provide refreshments during the focus group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Was any training\/briefing provided to the people you involved?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The briefing involved sending information and explaining the project prior to the meeting and then using the initial meeting to ask for their opinions about research priorities relating to AS, voice and swallowing. \u00a0I was fortunate that Catherine has significant research experience from her job role prior to living with AS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>How did your research change as result of the public involvement insights? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The key aspects that the patient advisory group helped me with were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Addition of a qualitative workstream and suggestions for how to collect information (given many participants have voice difficulties) &#8211; \u201c<em>The [focus groups] with patients are likely to be really informative. There are some interactive methods like drawing, writing, forming timelines that could be helpful for patients in telling their story if they are struggling with their voice as just talking for long periods of time could be challenging. This part will probably give a lot more information about what it\u2019s really like for patients and how it affects them in their day-to-day lives. It also gives them a chance to say how they would like the service to be improved, which you don\u2019t really get from the questionnaires.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Altered outcome \u2013 the patient reported outcome measure questionnaires I had planned to use were changed based on feedback from the group \u2013 they chose a questionnaire that asked more relevant questions based on their experiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Altered timepoints for the outcome measures \u2013 I removed \u201cday 1 post-surgery\u201d from my timepoints for assessment as the group felt that this would be unfeasible due to: \u201c<em>The fear and shock after surgery (especially major surgery) can be a big issue\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Reviewed qualitative themes and analysis \u2013 this included sense-checking the overall labels given to the themes which related to a journey focusing on the emotional, physical, and medical aspects of care. The group were very keen that identity as a \u201cperson, not a patient\u201d was reflected in the overall representation of experiences.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Confirmation that expectations of patients participating in the study were acceptable and not too much of a burden.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Development and piloting of a research survey focusing on mucus and cough.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Dissemination to a much wider group than I would have expected \u2013 this particularly related to access to the online support group, and the wider email distribution list of both patients and clinicians held by Catherine and her support in disseminating the work.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Development of my post-doctoral study (a Delphi Consensus project) \u2013 this has involved identifying a set of key outcomes from my PhD work and asking patients, clinicians, and researchers to vote on the importance of each outcome. The aim is to identify 6-8 outcomes (from an original list of 53) as a core outcome set for future research projects. The aim of a core outcome set is to make sure that researchers use consistent outcomes in their work which hopefully makes research more generalisable and clinically applicable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The patient advisor who had research experience became co-author on one of my publications, and we presented together at two international conferences. She also helped me to develop a video animation of my PhD findings and supported a Twitter takeover via my professional body RCSLT to raise awareness of AS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What impact did the Public Involvement have on the people involved? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">This is one area of my public involvement work that I did not consider in enough depth. I have learnt a lot from being based at PERC over the last few months as a PERC Fellow about what I would need to do in future to make sure I captured the impact more successfully, including completing an impact log, and asking patients more specifically about their experiences of being involved in shaping and designing research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">However, the informal responses I had from my patient advisory group were always positive e.g.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u201cI think it\u2019s great to be able to have input from us.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0\u201c<\/em><em>I found today\u2019s session was useful\u00a0&#8211; so glad to be able to assist in your next piece of research for AS. \u00a0It was great to meet others face to face and share experiences together. Thank you for all you and Justin and team are doing to help us manage our lives with this condition.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u201cReally interesting stuff, I&#8217;m happy to continue helping with your study.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">One final clinical impact is that the care pathway altered as a direct result of my PhD and hopefully is now providing patients with a better service. This involved:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The introduction of a pre-treatment information session which is carried out with every patient listed for reconstructive surgery. This session is patient led, with a guidance document that allows them to identify the key subjects for discussion with the clinicians (usually at least a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) and Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)). This was developed because of the need for individualised information provision.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The formalisation of a multidisciplinary meeting where the surgeons, SLTs, CNS and other team members meet on a weekly basis to discuss each patient. The aim of this was to minimise the conflicting information provided to patients about their care and improve team communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What was the most challenging part of doing <\/strong><strong>Public Involvement and how did you overcome it (or not)?\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">I think for me the most challenging part has been trying to identify a more diverse range of patient\/public to provide feedback. The people I relied on most were overwhelmingly white, middle-aged women who represented a very specific subset of AS (described as idiopathic AS which means no-one knows why their AS has occurred, despite lots of investigations). To reach a broader demographic of patients was quite challenging, and I don\u2019t think I did a very good job of widening the net. I did use email correspondence with some patients to ask their opinion of certain aspects of my research when they weren\u2019t keen on attending groups and they were often from other demographic groups. In future I would look to extend the type of activities I used and the options for providing feedback to make it more inclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>What advice would you give other researchers interested in doing something like this?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Take the time to properly embed patients. The public should not be an optional extra, but should be key to any research that you do. It is time-consuming and hard work, but the benefits make it completely worthwhile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><strong>So, what\u2019s next? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">When my PhD finished in 2022, I continued with my post-doctoral research, and have completed the Delphi Consensus study. Over 400 patients have participated in all 3 rounds of the voting. The consensus groups I held were with equal numbers of patients and clinicians\/researchers which is very unusual for Delphi studies where the balance is often weighted towards professionals. I hope that my ongoing patient involvement work has been partly the reason for this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Since January 2024, I have been one of the Imperial BRC PERC fellows. 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