- Title
- Describing the evidence-base for research engagement by health care providers and health care organisations: a scoping review
- Creator
- Yoong, Sze Lin; Bolsewicz, Katarzyna; Reilly, Kathryn; Williams, Christopher; Wolfenden, Luke; Grady, Alice; Kingsland, Melanie; Finch, Meghan; Wiggers, John
- Relation
- ARC.DE170100382 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170100382 & NHMRC APP1150661 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1150661
- Relation
- BMC Health Services Research Vol. 23, Issue 1, no. 75
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08887-2
- Publisher
- BioMed Central Ltd.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Background: Having a research-engaged health and medical workforce is associated with improvements in clinical outcomes for patients. As such, there has been significant government investment internationally to support health care organisations and services to increase staff engagement with research. Objectives: This scoping review sought to provide an overview of the literature describing strategies employed to increase research engagement by health care providers and organisations, and to undertake a qualitative analysis to generate a list of research engagement strategies. Methods: A scoping review using systematic search strategies was undertaken to locate peer-review publications and grey literature related to research engagement by health care providers and organisations. Research engagement was defined as a ‘deliberate set of intellectual and practical activities undertaken by health care staff and organisations to conduct research’. A database search of electronic records was performed with no limit on publication date. Publications were included regardless of study type (excluding systematic reviews) and categorised as either databased (presenting data or new analysis of existing data) and non-databased (no new data or analyses). Databased publications were further classified according to study type, study design and setting. A qualitative synthesis using a Framework Approach was undertaken with all studies that described a strategy to improve research engagement. Results: A total of 152 publications were included in this study with 54% categorised as non-databased. Of the databased articles, the majority (72%) were descriptive studies describing prevalence of correlates of research engagement, 17 (25%) described intervention studies where only two were controlled studies. The following research engagement strategies were identified: i) dual skilled team/staff, ii) resources or physical infrastructure, iii) incentives, iv) leadership support of research, v) education/training, vi) networks, vii) forming partnerships or collaborations and viii) overall leadership structure of entity. Conclusions: The literature on research engagement is primarily opinion-based and descriptive in nature. To provide the evidence needed to inform strategies, this needs to progress beyond descriptive to more rigorous well-designed intervention research.
- Subject
- research engagement; research capacity building; health care providers; SDG 9; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1479030
- Identifier
- uon:50268
- Identifier
- ISSN:1472-6963
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access 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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