- Title
- Trainee-led research using an integrated knowledge translation or other research partnership approaches: a scoping review
- Creator
- Cassidy, Christine E.; Shin, Hwayeon Danielle; Langley, Jodi; Dorey, Rachel; Donnelly, Lauren; Ormel, Ilja; Ramage, Emily; Conway, Aislinn; Mrklas, Kelly; Laur, Celia; Beck, Amy; Varin, Melissa Demery; Steinwender, Sandy; Nguyen, Tram
- Relation
- Health Research Policy and Systems Vol. 19, Issue 1, no. 135
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-021-00784-0
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Background: There are increasing expectations for researchers and knowledge users in the health system to use a research partnership approach, such as integrated knowledge translation, to increase the relevance and use of research findings in health practice, programmes and policies. However, little is known about how health research trainees engage in research partnership approaches such as IKT. In response, the purpose of this scoping review was to map and characterize the evidence related to using an IKT or other research partnership approach from the perspective of health research trainees in thesis and/or postdoctoral work. Methods: We conducted this scoping review following the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology and Arksey and O’Malley’s framework. We searched the following databases in June 2020: MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL and PsycINFO. We also searched sources of unpublished studies and grey literature. We reported our findings in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews. Results: We included 74 records that described trainees’ experiences using an IKT or other research partnership approach to health research. The majority of studies involved collaboration with knowledge users in the research question development, recruitment and data collection stages of the research process. Intersecting barriers to IKT or other research partnerships at the individual, interpersonal and organizational levels were reported, including lack of skills in partnership research, competing priorities and trainees’ “outsider” status. We also identified studies that evaluated their IKT approach and reported impacts on partnership formation, such as valuing different perspectives, and enhanced relevance of research. Conclusion: Our review provides insights for trainees interested in IKT or other research partnership approaches and offers guidance on how to apply an IKT approach to their research. The review findings can serve as a basis for future reviews and primary research focused on IKT principles, strategies and evaluation. The findings can also inform IKT training efforts such as guideline development and academic programme development.
- Subject
- integrated knowledge translation; health research; research trainees; partnership approaches; collaborative research; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1493773
- Identifier
- uon:53643
- Identifier
- ISSN:1478-4505
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2021. This 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.
- Language
- eng
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