A protocol for a systematic review of the use of process evaluations in knowledge translation research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Experimental designs for evaluating knowledge translation (KT) interventions for professional behavior change can provide strong estimates of intervention effectiveness but offer limited insight how the intervention worked or not. Furthermore, trials provide little insight into the ways through which interventions lead to behavior change and how they are moderated by different facilitators and barriers. As a result, the ability to generalize the findings from one study to a different context, organization, or clinical problem is severely compromised. Consequently, researchers have started to explore the causal mechanisms in complementary studies (process evaluations) alongside experimental designs for evaluating KT interventions. This study focuses on improving process e

SUBMITTER: Scott SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4307977 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature