Should we feed back research results in the midst of a study
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The process and outcomes of creating and evaluating the feedback of research findings to healthcare aides and the importance of understanding organizational routines and the impact of corporate restructuring were key themes emerging from the case study.Abstract:
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This report is an introduction to a series of three research papers that describe the evolution of the approaches taken by the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) research team during its first four years to feed back the research findings to study participants. TREC is an observational multi-method health services research project underway in 36 nursing homes in the prairie provinces of Canada. TREC has actively involved decision makers from the sector in all stages from initial planning, through data collection to dissemination activities. However, it was not planned as a fully integrated knowledge translation project. These three papers describe our progress towards fully integrated knowledge translation—with respect to timely and requested feedback processes. The first paper reports on the process and outcomes of creating and evaluating the feedback of research findings to healthcare aides (unregulated health professionals). These aides provide over 80% of the direct care in our sample and actively requested the feedback as a condition of their continued cooperation in the data acquisition process. The second paper describes feedback from nursing home administrators on preliminary research findings (a facility annual report) and evaluation of the reports’ utility. The third paper discusses an approach to providing a more in-depth form of feedback (expanded feedback report) at one of the TREC nursing homes.read more
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Using the Knowledge to Action Framework in practice: a citation analysis and systematic review
TL;DR: The KTA Framework is being used in practice with varying degrees of completeness, with usage ranging from simple attribution via a reference, through informing planning, to making an intellectual contribution.
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Integrated Knowledge Translation with Public Health Policy Makers: A Scoping Review.
TL;DR: Broad research–knowledge user partnerships spanning multiple projects, as well as flexible involvement of knowledge users, enhanced engagement and supported the iKT process.
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Improving Nursing Home Care through Feedback On PerfoRMance Data (INFORM): Protocol for a cluster-randomized trial
Matthias Hoben,Peter G. Norton,Liane Ginsburg,Ruth A. Anderson,Greta G. Cummings,Holly J. Lanham,Janet E. Squires,Deanne Taylor,Adrian Wagg,Carole A. Estabrooks +9 more
TL;DR: This is the first study to systematically assess the effectiveness of different strategies to feed back research data to nursing home care units in order to improve their performance and enable development of a practical, sustainable, effective, and cost-effective feedback strategy for routine use by managers, policy makers and researchers.
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Effectiveness of Contrasting Approaches to Response-Contingent Learning among Children with Significant Developmental Delays and Disabilities.
TL;DR: In this article, a randomized controlled design study of an ability-based versus needs-based approach to response-contingent learning among children with significant developmental delays and disabilities who did not use instrumental behavior to produce reinforcing consequences is reported.
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Comparing effects of two higher intensity feedback interventions with simple feedback on improving staff communication in nursing homes—the INFORM cluster-randomized controlled trial
Matthias Hoben,Liane Ginsburg,Adam Easterbrook,Peter G. Norton,Ruth A. Anderson,Elizabeth A. Andersen,Anne-Marie Boström,Lisa Cranley,Holly J. Lanham,Lori E. Weeks,Greta G. Cummings,Jayna Holroyd-Leduc,Janet E. Squires,Adrian Wagg,Carole A. Estabrooks +14 more
TL;DR: Theoretically informed feedback was superior to simple feedback in improving care aides’ involvement in formal communications about resident care and underlines that prior estimates for efficacy of audit and feedback may be constrained by the type of feedback intervention tested.
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Lost in knowledge translation: time for a map?
Ian D. Graham,Jo Logan,Margaret B. Harrison,Sharon E. Straus,Jacqueline Tetroe,Wenda Caswell,Nicole Robinson +6 more
TL;DR: The implications of knowledge translation for continuing education in the health professions include the need to base continuing education on the best available knowledge, the use of educational and other transfer strategies that are known to be effective, and the value of learning about planned‐action theories to be better able to understand and influence change in practice settings.
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Study protocol for the translating research in elder care (TREC): building context through case studies in long-term care project (project two)
Jo Rycroft-Malone,Sue Dopson,Lesley F. Degner,Alison M. Hutchinson,Debra Morgan,Norma J. Stewart,Carole A. Estabrooks +6 more
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Feedback reporting of survey data to healthcare aides
Alison M. Hutchinson,Neha Batra-Garga,Lisa Cranley,Anne-Marie Boström,Anne-Marie Boström,Greta G. Cummings,Peter G. Norton,Carole A. Estabrooks +7 more
TL;DR: This study highlights not only the feasibility of producing understandable, usable, and useful feedback reports of survey data but also the value and importance of providing feedback to survey respondents.