The Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) Program: Perceptions of the First Cohort of Fellows

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay ◽  
Malcolm Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Health Care Executives ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Research Application ◽  
Executive Training ◽  
Canadian Health ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Inform Decision Making

The Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) and partners have created an innovative training program to support health care executives who use research evidence to inform decision-making. This article describes the Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) program and the perceptions of its first cohort of fellows ( n = 24). Despite challenges in balancing the time required to participate in this trusting learning environment, which encouraged and supported networking, the fellows were able to develop and apply a considerable knowledge base for evidence-informed decision-making.

Collaborative Practice: A Strategy to Improve the Relevance of Health Services Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Brazil ◽  
Stuart MacLeod ◽  
Brian Guest
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Services Research ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Collaborative Practice ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Healthcare Decision ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Collaborative Relationships

Health services research has emerged as a tool for decision makers to make services more effective and efficient. While its value as a basis for decision making is well established, the incorporation of such evidence into decision making remains inconsistent. To this end, strengthening collaborative relationships between researchers and healthcare decision makers has been identified as a significant strategy for putting research evidence into practice.

scholarly journals Stakeholders’ experiences with the evidence aid website to support ‘real-time’ use of research evidence to inform decision-making in crisis zones: a user testing study

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Firas Khalid ◽  
John N. Lavis ◽  
Fadi El-Jardali ◽  
Meredith Vanstone
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Home Page ◽  
User Testing ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Inform Decision Making ◽  
Use Of Research

Abstract Background Humanitarian action in crisis zones is fraught with many challenges, including lack of timely and accessible research evidence to inform decision-making about humanitarian interventions. Evidence websites have the potential to address this challenge. Evidence Aid is the only evidence website designed for crisis zones that focuses on providing research evidence in the form of systematic reviews. The objective of this study is to explore stakeholders’ views of Evidence Aid, contributing further to our understanding of the use of research evidence in decision-making in crisis zones. Methods We designed a qualitative user-testing study to collect interview data from stakeholders about their impressions of Evidence Aid. Eligible stakeholders included those with and without previous experience of Evidence Aid. All participants were either currently working or have worked within the last year in a crisis zone. Participants were asked to perform the same user experience-related tasks and answer questions about this experience and their knowledge needs. Data were analysed using a deductive framework analysis approach drawing on Morville’s seven facets of the user experience — findability, usability, usefulness, desirability, accessibility, credibility and value. Results A total of 31 interviews were completed with senior decision-makers (n = 8), advisors (n = 7), field managers (n = 7), analysts/researchers (n = 5) and healthcare providers (n = 4). Participant self-reported knowledge needs varied depending on their role. Overall, participants did not identify any ‘major’ problems (highest order) and identified only two ‘big’ problems (second highest order) with using the Evidence Aid website, namely the lack of a search engine on the home page and that some full-text articles linked to/from the site require a payment. Participants identified seven specific suggestions about how to improve Evidence Aid, many of which can also be applied to other evidence websites. Conclusions Stakeholders in crisis zones found Evidence Aid to be useful, accessible and credible. However, they experienced some problems with the lack of a search engine on the home page and the requirement for payment for some full-text articles linked to/from the site.

Essential skills for using research evidence in public health policy: a systematic review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saliha Ziam ◽  
Pierre Gignac ◽  
Élodie Courant ◽  
Esther Mc Sween-Cadieux
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Informed Decision ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Evidence Use ◽  
Public Health Decision ◽  
Health Decision

Background: Decisions related to the development and implementation of public health programmes or policies can benefit from more effective use of the best available knowledge. However, decision makers do not always feel sufficiently equipped or may lack the capacity to use evidence. This can lead them to overlook or set aside research results that could be relevant to their practice area.Aims and objectives: The objective of this systematic review was to synthesise the essential skills that facilitate the use of research evidence by public health decision makers.Methods: Thirty-nine articles that met our inclusion criteria were included. An inductive approach was used to extract data on evidence-informed decision-making-related skills and data were synthesised as a narrative review.Findings: The analysis revealed three categories of skills that are essential for evidence-informed decision-making process: interpersonal, cognitive, and leadership and influencing skills. Such cross-sectoral skills are essential for identifying, obtaining, synthesising, and integrating sound research results into the decision-making process.Discussion and conclusions: The results of this systematic review will help direct capacity-building efforts towards enhancing research evidence use by public health decision makers, such as developing different types of training that would be relevant to their needs. Also, when considering the evidence-informed decision-making skills development, there are several useful and complementary approaches to link research most effectively to action. On one hand, it is important not only to support decision makers at the individual level through skills development, but also to provide them with a day-to-day environment that is conducive to evidence use.<br />Key messages<br /><ul><li>Public health programmes or policies can benefit from more effective use of the best available knowledge;</li><br /><li>This review identified 39 studies on skills related to evidence-informed decision making;</li><br /><li>Three categories of skills are proposed: cognitive, interpersonal and leadership and influencing skills;</li><br /><li>It will help direct capacity-building efforts towards enhancing evidence use by decision makers.</li></ul>

The Teaching and Learning Toolkit: Communicating research evidence to inform decision‐making for policy and practice in education

2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Higgins ◽  
Maria Katsipataki ◽  
Alaidde Berenice Villanueva Aguilera ◽  
Emma Dobson ◽  
Louise Gascoine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Inform Decision Making

scholarly journals Supporting Climate-Resilient Planning at National and District Levels: A Pathway to Multi-stakeholder Decision-Making in Uganda

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
Rosalind J. Cornforth ◽  
Celia Petty ◽  
Grady Walker
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Visual Methods ◽  
Informed Decision Making ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Inform Decision Making ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIf rural adaptation is to be effective, then it cannot take the form of prescriptive actions determined by outsiders and subsequently imposed upon rural communities. Our focus in this chapter is to reflect on the effectiveness of rural adaptation in the context of food security and agriculture in Uganda and provide insight into a way forward using learning from the HyCRISTAL project rural pilot. We critically explore the boundaries of ‘adaptation’ and ‘resilience’ as policy responses to climate change in poor rural communities through the interdisciplinary use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, including innovative visual methods and action research. We identify some of the limits to building adaptive communities and explore potential solutions for enabling informed decision-making for rural adaptation that are linked to investment in sustainable development. We highlight the importance of multi-stakeholder approaches and the generation of a ‘knowledge ecosystem’ that combines physical and social science methods and data to generate context-specific information to inform decision-making.

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