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Is Research Working For You? Validating A Tool To Examine The Capacity Of Health Organizations To Use Research, Anita Kothari, Nancy Edwards, Nadia Hamel, Maria Judd
Is Research Working For You? Validating A Tool To Examine The Capacity Of Health Organizations To Use Research, Anita Kothari, Nancy Edwards, Nadia Hamel, Maria Judd
Anita Kothari
Background: 'Is research working for you? A self-assessment tool and discussion guide for health services management and policy organizations', developed by the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, is a tool that can help organizations understand their capacity to acquire, assess, adapt, and apply research. Objectives were to: determine whether the tool demonstrated response variability; describe how the tool differentiated between organizations that were known to be lower-end or higher-end research users; and describe the potential usability of the tool.
Methods: Thirty-two focus groups were conducted among four sectors of Canadian health organizations. In the first hour of the focus group, …
Evolving The Theory And Praxis Of Knowledge Translation Through Social Interaction: A Social Phenomenological Study, Carol L. Mcwilliam, Anita Kothari, Cathy Ward-Griffin, Dorothy Forbes, Beverly Leipert
Evolving The Theory And Praxis Of Knowledge Translation Through Social Interaction: A Social Phenomenological Study, Carol L. Mcwilliam, Anita Kothari, Cathy Ward-Griffin, Dorothy Forbes, Beverly Leipert
Anita Kothari
Background: As an inherently human process fraught with subjectivity, dynamic interaction, and change, social interaction knowledge translation (KT) invites implementation scientists to explore what might be learned from adopting the academic tradition of social constructivism and an interpretive research approach. This paper presents phenomenological investigation of the second cycle of a participatory action KT intervention in the home care sector to answer the question: What is the nature of the process of implementing KT through social interaction?
Methods: Social phenomenology was selected to capture how the social processes of the KT intervention were experienced, with the aim of representing these …