PMID- 22974318
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130422
LR  - 20211203
IS  - 1748-5908 (Electronic)
IS  - 1748-5908 (Linking)
VI  - 7
DP  - 2012 Sep 13
TI  - Should we feed back research results in the midst of a study?
PG  - 87
LID - 10.1186/1748-5908-7-87 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: This report is an introduction to a series of three research papers 
      that describe the evolution of the approaches taken by the Translating Research 
      in Elder Care (TREC) research team during its first four years to feed back the 
      research findings to study participants. TREC is an observational multi-method 
      health services research project underway in 36 nursing homes in the prairie 
      provinces of Canada. TREC has actively involved decision makers from the sector 
      in all stages from initial planning, through data collection to dissemination 
      activities. However, it was not planned as a fully integrated knowledge 
      translation project. These three papers describe our progress towards fully 
      integrated knowledge translation--with respect to timely and requested feedback 
      processes. The first paper reports on the process and outcomes of creating and 
      evaluating the feedback of research findings to healthcare aides (unregulated 
      health professionals). These aides provide over 80% of the direct care in our 
      sample and actively requested the feedback as a condition of their continued 
      cooperation in the data acquisition process. The second paper describes feedback 
      from nursing home administrators on preliminary research findings (a facility 
      annual report) and evaluation of the reports' utility. The third paper discusses 
      an approach to providing a more in-depth form of feedback (expanded feedback 
      report) at one of the TREC nursing homes. FINDINGS: Survey and interview feedback 
      from healthcare aides is presented in the first paper. Overall, healthcare aides' 
      opinions about presentation of the feedback report and the understand ability, 
      usability, and usefulness of the content were positive. The second paper 
      describes the use of telephone interviews with facility administrators and 
      indicates that the majority of contextual areas (e.g., staff job satisfaction) 
      addressed in facility annual report to be useful, meaningful, and understandable. 
      More than one-half of the administrators would have liked to have received 
      information on additional areas. The third paper explores how a case study that 
      examined how involvement with the TREC study influenced management and staff at 
      one of the TREC nursing homes. The importance of understanding organizational 
      routines and the impact of corporate restructuring were key themes emerging from 
      the case study. In addition, the Director of Care suggested changes to the 
      structure and format of the feedback report that would have improved its 
      usefulness. CONCLUSIONS: We believe that these findings will inform others 
      undertaking integrated knowledge translation activities and will encourage others 
      to become more engaged in feedback processes.
FAU - Estabrooks, Carole A
AU  - Estabrooks CA
AD  - Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1C9, Canada. 
      carole.estabrooks@ualberta.ca
FAU - Teare, Gary F
AU  - Teare GF
FAU - Norton, Peter G
AU  - Norton PG
LA  - eng
GR  - MOP #53107/Canadian Institutes of Health Research/Canada
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120913
PL  - England
TA  - Implement Sci
JT  - Implementation science : IS
JID - 101258411
SB  - IM
MH  - Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - Feedback
MH  - Health Facility Administrators
MH  - Health Personnel
MH  - Health Services Research/*organization & administration
MH  - Health Services for the Aged/*organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - Translational Research, Biomedical/*organization & administration
PMC - PMC3495890
EDAT- 2012/09/15 06:00
MHDA- 2013/04/23 06:00
PMCR- 2012/09/13
CRDT- 2012/09/15 06:00
PHST- 2011/09/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/07/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/09/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/09/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/04/23 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/09/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1748-5908-7-87 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1748-5908-7-87 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Implement Sci. 2012 Sep 13;7:87. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-7-87.