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Nursing home leaders’ perceptions of a research partnership

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Partnerships between healthcare providers and researchers may accelerate the translation of interventions into widespread practice by testing them under real-world conditions, but depend on provider’s willingness to engage with researchers and ability to fully implement an inte...

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Autores principales: Baier, Rosa R., McCreedy, Ellen, Uth, Rebecca, Gifford, David R., Wetle, Terrie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8019299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33811623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-021-01847-6
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author Baier, Rosa R.
McCreedy, Ellen
Uth, Rebecca
Gifford, David R.
Wetle, Terrie
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description BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Partnerships between healthcare providers and researchers may accelerate the translation of interventions into widespread practice by testing them under real-world conditions, but depend on provider’s willingness to engage with researchers and ability to fully implement an intervention. AIM: To understand nursing home leader’s motivations for participating in a research study and perceptions of the process and value. METHODS: After a feasibility study of tuned lighting in a nursing home, we conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with six facility leaders. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and independently coded by four investigators. RESULTS: Three themes emerged: (1) The importance of the nursing home’s culture and context: the facility had stable leadership, clear processes for prioritizing and implementing new initiatives, and an established interest in the study’s topic. (2) The importance of leader’s belief in the value of the intervention: leaders perceived research generally and the intervention specifically as positively impacting their facility and residents. (3) The importance of ongoing collaboration and flexibility throughout the study period: leaders served as champions to catalyze the project and overcome implementation barriers. CONCLUSION: Nursing home leader’s perspectives about their participation in a feasibility study underscore the importance of establishing strong researcher–provider partnerships, understanding the environment in which the intervention will be implemented, and employing pragmatic methods that allow for flexibility in response to real-world implementation barriers. We recommend eliciting qualitative information to understand the environment in which an intervention will be implemented and to engage opinion leaders who can inform the protocol and champion its success.
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spelling pubmed-80192992021-04-06 Nursing home leaders’ perceptions of a research partnership Baier, Rosa R. McCreedy, Ellen Uth, Rebecca Gifford, David R. Wetle, Terrie Aging Clin Exp Res Original Article BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Partnerships between healthcare providers and researchers may accelerate the translation of interventions into widespread practice by testing them under real-world conditions, but depend on provider’s willingness to engage with researchers and ability to fully implement an intervention. AIM: To understand nursing home leader’s motivations for participating in a research study and perceptions of the process and value. METHODS: After a feasibility study of tuned lighting in a nursing home, we conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with six facility leaders. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and independently coded by four investigators. RESULTS: Three themes emerged: (1) The importance of the nursing home’s culture and context: the facility had stable leadership, clear processes for prioritizing and implementing new initiatives, and an established interest in the study’s topic. (2) The importance of leader’s belief in the value of the intervention: leaders perceived research generally and the intervention specifically as positively impacting their facility and residents. (3) The importance of ongoing collaboration and flexibility throughout the study period: leaders served as champions to catalyze the project and overcome implementation barriers. CONCLUSION: Nursing home leader’s perspectives about their participation in a feasibility study underscore the importance of establishing strong researcher–provider partnerships, understanding the environment in which the intervention will be implemented, and employing pragmatic methods that allow for flexibility in response to real-world implementation barriers. We recommend eliciting qualitative information to understand the environment in which an intervention will be implemented and to engage opinion leaders who can inform the protocol and champion its success. Springer International Publishing 2021-04-03 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8019299/ /pubmed/33811623 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40520-021-01847-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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