Better Tools for Multi-site Research

The excellent resource provides key strategies for distributing salient findings to affected communities, participant agencies, health departments, researchers, policy makers, and health advocacy groups. Included are practical advice and specific templates you can adapt for your use.  Click here to download.

Courtesy of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation's Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE).  http://ycci.yale.edu/community/care_main.html

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This introduction to effectiveness, dissemination and implementation research was designed by the CTSI at UCSF to introduce basic principles and definitions, provide a framework for researchers to conduct such research, to encourage grant applications related to such research, and promote resources. Includes links to presentations and videos, important articles and useful web resources.   Click here to download.

Courtesy of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Community Engagement Program.  http://ctsi.ucsf.edu/files/ce_rr&d_guide.pdf

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This valuable resource is designed to facilitate dissemination and use of rural health services research findings. The toolkit is very straightforward, easy-to-use and practical reference guide and highlights common methods of packaging and dissemination information that were identified as important by key target audiences (e.g., policy makers, national health related organizations).   Click here to download.

Rural Health Research Gateway [electronic resource]: Disseminating Rural Health Research to State and National Audiences: A Communications Toolkit for Health Researchers / Wendy Opsahl, MA; Amanda Scurry, MS; Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN; Patricia Moulton, PhD; Kristine Sande, MBA; Naomi Lelm, BA.  http://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/toolkit/

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What do you do if you've demonstrated that your behavior change intervention worked well in your controlled research setting? This link takes you to the website for RE-AIM, which is a framework for systematically evaluating whether and how a health intervention can be translated successfully into wider scale settings.   

From the re-aim.org workgroup to evaluate and enhance the reach and dissemination of health promotion interventions.  www.re-aim.org/2003/researchers/framework_res.html

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The impact of research can be hard to discern--have the findings been shared? Has the wider community benefited from the research output? How do we know? The Becker Medical Library at Washington University in St. Louis has developed an open-access tool for tracking and enhancing the impact of research at the scientific, clinical, community levels.   

From the Washington University St Louis (WUSTL) School of Medicine's Beckler Medical Library.   http://becker.wustl.edu/impact/assessment/

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From the Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group. The curriculum is intended as a tool for use by community-academic partnerships that are using or planning to use a Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) approach to improving health. It can be used by partnerships that are just forming as well as existing partnerships. It is intended for use by health professions faculty and researchers, students and post-doctoral fellows, staff of community-based organizations, and staff of public health agencies at all skill levels.  

The Examining Community-Institutional Partnerships for Prevention Research Group. Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum. 2006.   http://www.cbprcurriculum.info/

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