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Characterizing Canadian funded partnered health research projects between 2011 and 2019: a retrospective analysis

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Involving research users in collaborative research approaches may increase the relevance and utility of research findings. Our primary objectives were to (i) identify and describe characteristics of Canadian federally and provincially funded health research projects that include...

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Autores principales: Sibley, Kathryn M., Khan, Masood, Touchette, Alexie J., Crockett, Leah K., Driedger, S. Michelle, Gainforth, Heather L., Prabhu, Devashree, Steliga, Dawn, Tefft, Olivia, Graham, Ian D.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10492355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37684637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-01046-x
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author Sibley, Kathryn M.
Khan, Masood
Touchette, Alexie J.
Crockett, Leah K.
Driedger, S. Michelle
Gainforth, Heather L.
Prabhu, Devashree
Steliga, Dawn
Tefft, Olivia
Graham, Ian D.
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Khan, Masood
Touchette, Alexie J.
Crockett, Leah K.
Driedger, S. Michelle
Gainforth, Heather L.
Prabhu, Devashree
Steliga, Dawn
Tefft, Olivia
Graham, Ian D.
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Involving research users in collaborative research approaches may increase the relevance and utility of research findings. Our primary objectives were to (i) identify and describe characteristics of Canadian federally and provincially funded health research projects that included research users and were funded between 2011 and 2019; (ii) explore changes over time; and (iii) compare characteristics between funder required and optional partnerships. METHODS: Retrospective analysis. Inclusion criteria were projects that included research users. We analyzed publicly available project variables, and coded field and type of research using established classification systems. We summarized data with descriptive statistics and compared variables across three funding year blocks and partnership requirement status. RESULTS: We identified 1153 partnered health research projects, representing 137 fields of research and 37 types of research categories. Most projects included a required partnership (80%) and fell into health and social care services research (66%). Project length and funding amount increased from average of 24.8 months and $266 248 CAD in 2011–2013 to 31.6 months and $438 766 CAD in 2017–2019. There were significantly fewer required partnerships in 2017–2019. CONCLUSIONS: Between 2011 and 2019 Canadian federally and provincially funded partnered health research reflected primarily care services research across many fields. The observed breadth suggests that partnered health research approaches are applicable in many fields of research. Additional work to support partnered research across all types of health research (especially biomedical research) is warranted. The administration of larger grants that are funded for longer time periods may address previously identified concerns among research teams engaging in partnered research but may mean that fewer teams receive funding and risk delaying responding to time-sensitive data needs for users. Our process and findings can be used as a starting point for international comparison. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12961-023-01046-x.
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spelling pubmed-104923552023-09-10 Characterizing Canadian funded partnered health research projects between 2011 and 2019: a retrospective analysis Sibley, Kathryn M. Khan, Masood Touchette, Alexie J. Crockett, Leah K. Driedger, S. Michelle Gainforth, Heather L. Prabhu, Devashree Steliga, Dawn Tefft, Olivia Graham, Ian D. Health Res Policy Syst Research BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Involving research users in collaborative research approaches may increase the relevance and utility of research findings. Our primary objectives were to (i) identify and describe characteristics of Canadian federally and provincially funded health research projects that included research users and were funded between 2011 and 2019; (ii) explore changes over time; and (iii) compare characteristics between funder required and optional partnerships. METHODS: Retrospective analysis. Inclusion criteria were projects that included research users. We analyzed publicly available project variables, and coded field and type of research using established classification systems. We summarized data with descriptive statistics and compared variables across three funding year blocks and partnership requirement status. RESULTS: We identified 1153 partnered health research projects, representing 137 fields of research and 37 types of research categories. Most projects included a required partnership (80%) and fell into health and social care services research (66%). Project length and funding amount increased from average of 24.8 months and $266 248 CAD in 2011–2013 to 31.6 months and $438 766 CAD in 2017–2019. There were significantly fewer required partnerships in 2017–2019. CONCLUSIONS: Between 2011 and 2019 Canadian federally and provincially funded partnered health research reflected primarily care services research across many fields. The observed breadth suggests that partnered health research approaches are applicable in many fields of research. Additional work to support partnered research across all types of health research (especially biomedical research) is warranted. The administration of larger grants that are funded for longer time periods may address previously identified concerns among research teams engaging in partnered research but may mean that fewer teams receive funding and risk delaying responding to time-sensitive data needs for users. Our process and findings can be used as a starting point for international comparison. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12961-023-01046-x. BioMed Central 2023-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10492355/ /pubmed/37684637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-01046-x Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Touchette, Alexie J.
Crockett, Leah K.
Driedger, S. Michelle
Gainforth, Heather L.
Prabhu, Devashree
Steliga, Dawn
Tefft, Olivia
Graham, Ian D.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10492355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37684637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-01046-x
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