The addition of public and patient involvement (PPI) as part of a research team is an exciting recent development in health research, particularly in projects which aim to develop interventions. Research has demonstrated that PPI groups can be of great benefit to a project. Having a member of the public or a patient present who may be experiencing the issue at the core of the research adds an insight into the topic that otherwise may have not been found. Having the involvement of a PPI group may also be of benefit when relaying the findings of the research to the wider public. The proposed project is working in collaboration with an ongoing project, in which a PPI group helped make decisions about how a psychological intervention for people with chronic pain was designed and delivered to others. The current project aims to describe, analyse and understand how the process of public and patient involvement advanced through that project.. Data was gathered across twelve sessions between the PPI group and a researcher in order to make decisions about intervention design. I will re-analyse the activities undertaken by the PPI group to establish what facilitating and co-ordinating techniques worked well to support participation, and the overall impact of the PPI on the final intervention. The overall goal is to not only produced a case study of the experiences of the PPI group but to also create guidance for future researchers wishing to use PPI.
