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Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study
BACKGROUND: Clinical research coordinators (CRCs) facilitate the interaction between researchers and knowledge users in rehabilitation centres to promote and sustain evidence-informed practices. Despite their presence in rehabilitation settings in Quebec for over 20 years, little is known about thei...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9903418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09027-0 |
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author | Kengne Talla, P. Robillard, C. Ahmed, S. Guindon, A. Houtekier, C. Thomas, A. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Clinical research coordinators (CRCs) facilitate the interaction between researchers and knowledge users in rehabilitation centres to promote and sustain evidence-informed practices. Despite their presence in rehabilitation settings in Quebec for over 20 years, little is known about their profiles and knowledge translation (KT) activities nor how they can best enact their role. This study explored CRCs’ roles and perspectives on the barriers, enablers, and strategies for improving KT activities in rehabilitation settings. METHODS: We conducted a multi-centre, participatory sequential mixed methods study. In the descriptive quantitative phase, we collected data via an online survey to determine CRCs’ role in research and KT. In the subsequent qualitative phase, we conducted an in-person focus group to elicit CRCs’ perspectives regarding factors influencing their work in KT, and potential solutions for overcoming these challenges. We used a descriptive and an inductive content analysis approach for the data analysis. The data synthesis was inspired by the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services framework. RESULTS: All nine CRCs from five partner health regions of a large rehabilitation research centre agreed to participate in the study. The data suggest that CRCs are like knowledge brokers and boundary spanners. As information managers, linkage agents and facilitators, CRCs play a pivot role in diffusion, dissemination, synthesis and tailoring of knowledge to improve evidence informed practices and quality of care in rehabilitation. The factors influencing CRCs’ KT activities are mostly linked to the context such as the receptivity of the organization as well as the lack of time and resources, and limited understanding of their roles by stakeholders. Two main suggestions made to enhance CRCs’ contribution to KT activities include the harmonisation of expectations between the large research centre and their partner health regions, and better promotion of their role to clinical and research teams. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides valuable insights into the scope of CRCs’ role. The results shed light on the challenges that they face and potential solutions to overcome them. The knowledge generated in this study can be used to implement this role with similar duties in rehabilitation settings or other health care domains. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-023-09027-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-99034182023-02-08 Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study Kengne Talla, P. Robillard, C. Ahmed, S. Guindon, A. Houtekier, C. Thomas, A. BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: Clinical research coordinators (CRCs) facilitate the interaction between researchers and knowledge users in rehabilitation centres to promote and sustain evidence-informed practices. Despite their presence in rehabilitation settings in Quebec for over 20 years, little is known about their profiles and knowledge translation (KT) activities nor how they can best enact their role. This study explored CRCs’ roles and perspectives on the barriers, enablers, and strategies for improving KT activities in rehabilitation settings. METHODS: We conducted a multi-centre, participatory sequential mixed methods study. In the descriptive quantitative phase, we collected data via an online survey to determine CRCs’ role in research and KT. In the subsequent qualitative phase, we conducted an in-person focus group to elicit CRCs’ perspectives regarding factors influencing their work in KT, and potential solutions for overcoming these challenges. We used a descriptive and an inductive content analysis approach for the data analysis. The data synthesis was inspired by the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services framework. RESULTS: All nine CRCs from five partner health regions of a large rehabilitation research centre agreed to participate in the study. The data suggest that CRCs are like knowledge brokers and boundary spanners. As information managers, linkage agents and facilitators, CRCs play a pivot role in diffusion, dissemination, synthesis and tailoring of knowledge to improve evidence informed practices and quality of care in rehabilitation. The factors influencing CRCs’ KT activities are mostly linked to the context such as the receptivity of the organization as well as the lack of time and resources, and limited understanding of their roles by stakeholders. Two main suggestions made to enhance CRCs’ contribution to KT activities include the harmonisation of expectations between the large research centre and their partner health regions, and better promotion of their role to clinical and research teams. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides valuable insights into the scope of CRCs’ role. The results shed light on the challenges that they face and potential solutions to overcome them. The knowledge generated in this study can be used to implement this role with similar duties in rehabilitation settings or other health care domains. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-023-09027-0. BioMed Central 2023-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9903418/ /pubmed/36750836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09027-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (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. |
spellingShingle | Research Kengne Talla, P. Robillard, C. Ahmed, S. Guindon, A. Houtekier, C. Thomas, A. Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
title | Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
title_full | Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
title_fullStr | Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
title_full_unstemmed | Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
title_short | Clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
title_sort | clinical research coordinators’ role in knowledge translation activities in rehabilitation: a mixed methods study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9903418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36750836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09027-0 |
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