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Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol
BACKGROUND: The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) is a research consortium concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases. CEBHA+ seeks to engage policymakers and practitioners throughout the research process in orde...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33461592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00675-w |
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author | Pfadenhauer, Lisa M. Grath, Tanja Delobelle, Peter Jessani, Nasreen Meerpohl, Joerg J. Rohwer, Anke Schmidt, Bey-Marrié Toews, Ingrid Akiteng, Ann R. Chapotera, Gertrude Kredo, Tamara Levitt, Naomi Ntawuyirushintege, Seleman Sell, Kerstin Rehfuess, Eva A. |
author_facet | Pfadenhauer, Lisa M. Grath, Tanja Delobelle, Peter Jessani, Nasreen Meerpohl, Joerg J. Rohwer, Anke Schmidt, Bey-Marrié Toews, Ingrid Akiteng, Ann R. Chapotera, Gertrude Kredo, Tamara Levitt, Naomi Ntawuyirushintege, Seleman Sell, Kerstin Rehfuess, Eva A. |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) is a research consortium concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases. CEBHA+ seeks to engage policymakers and practitioners throughout the research process in order to build lasting relationships, enhance evidence uptake, and create long-term capacity among partner institutions in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda in collaboration with two German universities. This integrated knowledge translation (IKT) approach includes the formal development, implementation and evaluation of country specific IKT strategies. METHODS: We have conceptualised the CEBHA+ IKT approach as a complex intervention in a complex system. We will employ a comparative case study (CCS) design and mixed methods to facilitate an in-depth evaluation. We will use quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, quarterly updates, and a policy document analysis to capture the process and outcomes of IKT across the African CEBHA+ partner sites. We will conduct an early stage (early 2020) and a late-stage evaluation (early 2022), triangulate the data collected with various methods at each site and subsequently compare our findings across the five sites. DISCUSSION: Evaluating a complex intervention such as the CEBHA+ IKT approach is complicated, even more so when undertaken across five diverse countries. Despite conceptual, methodological and practical challenges, our comparative case study addresses important evidence gaps: While involving decision-makers in the research process is gaining traction worldwide, we still know very little regarding (i) whether this approach really makes a difference to evidence uptake, (ii) the mechanisms that make IKT successful, and (iii) relevant differences across socio-cultural contexts. The evaluation described here is intended to provide relevant insights on all of these aspects, notably in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is expected to contribute to the science of IKT overall. |
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spelling | pubmed-78131672021-01-18 Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol Pfadenhauer, Lisa M. Grath, Tanja Delobelle, Peter Jessani, Nasreen Meerpohl, Joerg J. Rohwer, Anke Schmidt, Bey-Marrié Toews, Ingrid Akiteng, Ann R. Chapotera, Gertrude Kredo, Tamara Levitt, Naomi Ntawuyirushintege, Seleman Sell, Kerstin Rehfuess, Eva A. Health Res Policy Syst Study Protocol BACKGROUND: The Collaboration for Evidence-based Healthcare and Public Health in Africa (CEBHA+) is a research consortium concerned with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases. CEBHA+ seeks to engage policymakers and practitioners throughout the research process in order to build lasting relationships, enhance evidence uptake, and create long-term capacity among partner institutions in Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda in collaboration with two German universities. This integrated knowledge translation (IKT) approach includes the formal development, implementation and evaluation of country specific IKT strategies. METHODS: We have conceptualised the CEBHA+ IKT approach as a complex intervention in a complex system. We will employ a comparative case study (CCS) design and mixed methods to facilitate an in-depth evaluation. We will use quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, quarterly updates, and a policy document analysis to capture the process and outcomes of IKT across the African CEBHA+ partner sites. We will conduct an early stage (early 2020) and a late-stage evaluation (early 2022), triangulate the data collected with various methods at each site and subsequently compare our findings across the five sites. DISCUSSION: Evaluating a complex intervention such as the CEBHA+ IKT approach is complicated, even more so when undertaken across five diverse countries. Despite conceptual, methodological and practical challenges, our comparative case study addresses important evidence gaps: While involving decision-makers in the research process is gaining traction worldwide, we still know very little regarding (i) whether this approach really makes a difference to evidence uptake, (ii) the mechanisms that make IKT successful, and (iii) relevant differences across socio-cultural contexts. The evaluation described here is intended to provide relevant insights on all of these aspects, notably in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, and is expected to contribute to the science of IKT overall. BioMed Central 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7813167/ /pubmed/33461592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00675-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis 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/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://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. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Pfadenhauer, Lisa M. Grath, Tanja Delobelle, Peter Jessani, Nasreen Meerpohl, Joerg J. Rohwer, Anke Schmidt, Bey-Marrié Toews, Ingrid Akiteng, Ann R. Chapotera, Gertrude Kredo, Tamara Levitt, Naomi Ntawuyirushintege, Seleman Sell, Kerstin Rehfuess, Eva A. Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
title | Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
title_full | Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
title_fullStr | Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
title_full_unstemmed | Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
title_short | Mixed method evaluation of the CEBHA+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
title_sort | mixed method evaluation of the cebha+ integrated knowledge translation approach: a protocol |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7813167/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33461592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00675-w |
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