Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement: Because You Can’t Study What You Don’t Know

Zittleman, Linda; Wright, Leslie; Ortiz, Barrientos Charlene; Fleming, Candace; Loudhawk-Hedgepeth, Crystal; Marshall, Julie; Ramirez, Lorenzo; Wheeler, Michele; Westfall, John M.

doi:10.1353/cpr.2014.0006

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“…There is some evidence to suggest that in these collaborative research partnerships, researchers are the ones who benefit more by learning about the knowledge users’ context [ 11 , 48 ]. Other studies reveal engagement of knowledge users can influence researchers’ approaches to research and the review of grants [ 49 , 50 ]. However, the evidence is not yet conclusive on the impacts of IKT.…”

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Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programmes and policy: protocol for a research programme on integrated knowledge translation

2018

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BackgroundHealth research is conducted with the expectation that it advances knowledge and eventually translates into improved health systems and population health. However, research findings are often caught in the know-do gap: they are not acted upon in a timely way or not applied at all. Integrated knowledge translation (IKT) is advanced as a way to increase the relevance, applicability and impact of research. With IKT, knowledge users work with researchers throughout the research process, starting with identification of the research question. Knowledge users represent those who would be able to use research results to inform their decisions (e.g. clinicians, managers, policy makers, patients/families and others). Stakeholders are increasingly interested in the idea that IKT generates greater and faster societal impact. Stakeholders are all those who are interested in the use of research results but may not necessarily use them for their own decision-making (e.g. governments, funders, researchers, health system managers and policy makers, patients and clinicians). Although IKT is broadly accepted, the actual research supporting it is limited and there is uncertainty about how best to conduct and support IKT. This paper presents a protocol for a programme of research testing the assumption that engaging the users of research in phases of its production leads to (a) greater appreciation of and capacity to use research; (b) the production of more relevant, useful and applicable research that results in greater impact; and (c) conditions under which it is more likely that research results will influence policy, managerial and clinical decision-making.MethodsThe research programme will adopt an interdisciplinary, international, cross-sector approach, using multiple and mixed methods to reflect the complex and social nature of research partnerships. We will use ongoing and future natural IKT experiments as multiple cases to study IKT in depth, and we will take advantage of the team’s existing relationships with provincial, national and international organizations. Case studies will be retrospective and prospective, and the 7-year grant period will enable longitudinal studies. The initiation of partnerships, funding processes, the research lifecycle and then outcomes/impacts post project will be studied in real time. These living laboratories will also allow testing of strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the IKT approach.DiscussionThis is the first interdisciplinary, systematic and programmatic research study on IKT. The research will provide scientific evidence on how to reliably and validly measure collaborative research partnerships and their impacts. The proposed research will build the science base for IKT, assess its relationship with research use and identify best practices and appropriate conditions for conducting IKT to achieve the greatest impact. It will also train and mentor the next generation of IKT researchers.

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Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programmes and policy: protocol for a research programme on integrated knowledge translation

2018

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“…Investigators can learn principles and approaches to engagement, build relationships with community, and gather pilot data on research developed in collaboration with community. For instance, the Colorado Immersion Training program [43] has trained over 100 people in the principles of CBPR, health disparities, listening and self-reflection skills, and engagement tools. Participants receive directed readings, seminars, an immersion experience in a priority community (e.g., urban African American, refugee, urban Latino, and rural), and 6 months of faculty mentoring support.…”

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“…Participants receive directed readings, seminars, an immersion experience in a priority community (e.g., urban African American, refugee, urban Latino, and rural), and 6 months of faculty mentoring support. • CCTSI members can apply for community engagement-specific funding opportunities to support partnership development with [43], and co-designing educational materials to support community engagement in big data research [44]. • As shown in the EQ-DI framework, understanding the needs, perspectives, strengths, and assets of communities is an important first step to sensitizing and informing interventions to address health equity.…”

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Advancing health equity through CTSA programs: Opportunities for interaction between health equity, dissemination and implementation, and translational science

Yousefi‐Nooraie

Kwan

Cohn

et al. 2020

J. Clin. Trans. Sci.

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AbstractDissemination and implementation (D&I) science is dedicated to studying how to effectively translate and apply research in real-world contexts. There has been increasing interest in health equity within the D&I field to ensure the equitable implementation of evidence-based programs/practices across a range of diverse populations and settings. At the same time, health equity researchers recognize the potential of D&I science to promote the more widespread dissemination, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based interventions to address health inequities. The National Center for Accelerating Clinical and Translational Science Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program has been a champion for community engagement and translational scholarship in its mission to improve individual and population health. The overall CTSA infrastructure and resources within and among CTSA hubs are well-equipped to facilitate a health equity focus to D&I across the phases of translational research. This paper proposes a framework that demonstrates the interaction and opportunities between health equity and D&I science and highlights how CTSAs can support and facilitate wider efforts in translational research with a focus on equitable D&I.

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“…Themes strongly recommended for future development within this domain included “CBPR curriculum and graduate medical education reform” with “training new investigators” and “training community partners” almost equally ranked. The two lowest ranked themes were “evaluating CBPR training” and “learning techniques/ approaches.” Publications within this domain have explored involving community participants in “research conferences that address community relevant issues” 29 ; engaging community members in developing shared definitions of community capacity building and sustainability 30 ; educating and immersing academic researchers, program developers, and students in diverse community contexts 31 ; and holding joint community–academic grand rounds to identify community health concerns and university resources to address them. 32 …”

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A Retrospective on the Vision for Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Eder

Holzer²,

Calhoun³

et al. 2017

Progress in Community Health Partnerships

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The organizers founded Progress in Community Health Partnerships with a commitment to improving our understanding of community-based participatory research (CBPR) and its use in community–academic/institutional health partnerships. Following Rogers’s Diffusion of Innovations, they reasoned that expanded adoption would occur through academic and community partner recognition of CBPR’s relative advantage over previous approaches; its compatibility with the values, past experience and needs of potential adopters; its ease of understanding and use; its capacity for experimentation and refinement; and its production of observable results. We now assess the journal’s progress toward realizing the vision, as well as issues and problems the organizers identified. We map the journal’s content over its first decade onto the initial vision by examining the record of submissions and publications across the eight types of articles and the journal’s record of rejections and publications. In remembering that Rogers’s study of innovations requires both technical and social change, we discuss the difference between understanding how to do something and actually putting an innovation into action that becomes standard practice at both individual and systemic levels. We observe that the large number of Original Research and Works-in-Progress/Lessons Learned manuscripts, submitted and published, reflect traditional expectations for faculty research productivity. We suggest that sustainability, which rated of lower importance within the initial vision, has gained in importance among community and academic partners; however, it will gain added attention only with changed university expectations of researchers. We further suggest that the study of partnerships involved in researching and improving public health should be expanded beyond the current focus on CBPR.

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Colorado Immersion Training in Community Engagement: Because You Can’t Study What You Don’t Know

Abstract: CIT applies to and positively impacts researchers from a variety of disciplines. CIT creates opportunities for long lasting partnerships between researchers and communities.

Cited by 7 publications

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Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programmes and policy: protocol for a research programme on integrated knowledge translation

Moving knowledge into action for more effective practice, programmes and policy: protocol for a research programme on integrated knowledge translation

Advancing health equity through CTSA programs: Opportunities for interaction between health equity, dissemination and implementation, and translational science

A Retrospective on the Vision for Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

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