scholarly journals Evidence Cafés: Overcoming conflicting motivations and timings

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-241
Author(s):  
Gill Clough ◽  
Anne Adams
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Uk

Evidence-based practice is increasingly important in creating effective public services through the balance of high-quality research and valid practice. Yet even when academics and practitioners work together to use evidence in practice, barriers emerge. This paper describes research into equitable knowledge exchange between academia and practice, drawing on data from 15 Evidence Cafés run across the UK with police forces, involving 378 participants, represented here with three exemplar Evidence Café case studies. Our findings reveal the differences between one-way knowledge transfer and two-way, equitable knowledge exchange, and how champions and effectively designed and implemented discussion objects can overcome challenges of conflicting motivations and timing. We conclude that there is a need to reframe knowledge exchange through the lens of ‘evidence’ and the process of equitable co-creation of new meanings.

scholarly journals On Workplace Investment in Employee Well-Being

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Bulmash Ben
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Scientific Principles ◽  
Knowledge Intensive

<p><em>Many modern organizations invest substantially in employee well-being, especially knowledge-intensive companies. However, decision makers fail to make informed choices based on theoretical advancements and empirical evidence provided by years of high-quality research on individual well-being. This study reviews five fundamental scientific principles regarding people’s experiences of well-being and discusses the possible implications of the findings on organizational well-being initiatives. My purpose is to encourage organizations and decision makers to make more effective evidence-based investments in employee well-being.</em><em></em></p>

Student psychiatry audit and research collaborative (SPARC): A new UK initiative to improve recruitment in psychiatry

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S735-S736
Author(s):  
N. Ellis ◽  
M. Quraishy ◽  
C.M. Grubb ◽  
D. Codling ◽  
J. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Junior Doctor ◽  
Student Feedback ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

IntroductionThe UK has longstanding problems with psychiatry recruitment. Various initiatives aim to improve psychiatry's image among medical students, but involve research and none are student-led. Providing opportunities to take part in psychiatry research and quality improvement could increase the number of students who choose to enter the speciality.ObjectivesWe have developed the student psychiatry audit and research collaborative (SPARC), a student-led initiative for nationwide collaboration in high-quality research and audits.MethodsOur model is inspired by the success of the UK Student audit and research in surgery (STARSurg). Area teams, located in medical schools, take part in multi-centre projects. The area teams consist of medical students, who have the main responsibility for collecting data; a junior doctor, to supervise the process; and a consultant, with overall responsibility for patient care. The data collected centrally and analysed by a team of medical students and doctors. Student leads from each site are named authors on resulting papers. All other students are acknowledged and are able to present the work.ResultsWe have completed our first audits in Cardiff and London; other sites will return data in 2017. Student feedback indicated a high level of satisfaction with the project and interest in psychiatry as a future career.ConclusionsThis initiative aims to tackle the recruitment problems in psychiatry by giving students a chance to take part in high quality research and audits.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Registered Reports, Replication, and the Canadian Journal of School Psychology: Improving the Evidence in Evidence-Based School Psychology

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-187
Author(s):  
Steven R. Shaw ◽  
Joseph S. D’Intino ◽  
Ekaterina Lysenko
Keyword(s):  
School Psychology ◽  
Canadian Journal ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Replication Studies ◽  
Research Protocols ◽  
Review Model

The Canadian Journal of School Psychology (CJSP) is offering scholars the opportunity to register research reports and make research protocols publicly available to promote replication, transparency, credibility, and utility for clinical practice. The purpose of this article is to outline the challenges regarding replication, reproducibility, and evidence-based practices, as well as describe the submission protocol and criteria for acceptance of registered reports. Advances and criticisms of the registered reports model are discussed. Although CJSP will accept submissions through the traditional peer-review model, registered reports and support of replication studies have the objective of promoting high-quality research to improve the research foundation for evidence-based practices in the profession of school psychology.

EMDR With Traumatized Refugees: From Experience-Based to Evidence-Based Practice

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Jackie June ter Heide ◽  
Trudy T. M. Mooren ◽  
Jeroen W. Knipscheer ◽  
Rolf J. Kleber
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Safety And Efficacy ◽  
Narrative Exposure Therapy ◽  
Culturally Adapted

Many refugees resettled in Western countries suffer from an accumulation of traumatic and current stressors that contribute to mental health problems and may complicate trauma-focused treatment. Consequently, the acceptability, safety, and efficacy of trauma-focused treatment with refugees have been a matter of clinical and scientific interest. In recent years, the evidence has accumulated for narrative exposure therapy and culturally adapted cognitive behavioral therapy. Although eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is practiced with resettled refugees, only five small studies of limited quality have been conducted on EMDR with this population. In the absence of strong evidence, therapists practising EMDR with refugees may be aided by transcultural psychiatric principles, especially matching of explanatory models. In addition, high-quality research is needed to reliably determine acceptability, safety, and efficacy of EMDR with traumatized refugees.

scholarly journals OrthoEvidenceTM: a clinical resource for evidence-based orthopedics

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Sprague ◽  
Chris Smith ◽  
Mohit Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Orthopedic Surgeons ◽  
Clinical Resource

The prevalence of musculoskeletal issues in clinical practice, and the limited focus placed upon musculoskeletal conditions by current electronic summary resources, highlights the need for a resource that provides access to simple and concise summaries of top-quality orthopedic literature for orthopedic surgeons and allied healthcare professionals. OrthoEvidenceTM is an online clinical resource that addresses the paucity of adequate evidence-based summary tools in the field of orthopedic surgery. OrthoEvidenceTM uses a rigorous, transparent, and unique process to review, evaluate, and summarize high quality research studies and their implications for orthopedic clinical practice. Randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses are identified and reviewed by an expert medical writing team, who prepare Advanced Clinical Evidence (ACETM) reports: one or two detailed pages including critical appraisals and synopses of key research. These timely and targeted reports provide a clear understanding about the quality of evidence associated with each summarized study, and can be organized by users to identify trending information. OrthoEvidenceTM allows members to use their time efficiently and to stay current by having access to a breadth of timely, high-quality research output. OrthoEvidenceTM is easily accessible through the internet and is available at the point-of-care, which allows treating orthopedic surgeons and allied health professionals to easily practice the principles of evidence-based medicine within their clinical practices.

scholarly journals Controversies in psychiatry

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-152 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Psychiatric Diseases ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Anniversary Issue ◽  
20Th Anniversary ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines

Neuroimaging and recent genetics discoveries have raised many questions regarding the current diagnostic criteria of psychiatric diseases and the current classifications used, which are still based on subjective clinical assessment. Despite high-quality research in brain neuroscience and evidence-based guidelines in many psychiatric diseases, some therapeutic issues are still a matter of debate. These controversial issues will be discussed in this 20th anniversary issue.

scholarly journals Low quality, stigmatizing research prevents effective responses to covid-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Muller ◽  
Erika Gubrium ◽  
Jørgen Dahlberg ◽  
Ariana Guilherme Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Evidence Based ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research

Evidence-based responses to covid-19 must be based on high-quality research. Low-quality research is particularly dangerous when it feeds into stigmatizing narratives, including blaming immigrants for spreading infection.

scholarly journals Growing separation between teaching/ learning and research – anticipating the impacts from REF 2014.

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Cabral ◽  
Isabel Huet
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Assessment Systems ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Teaching Learning

Most quality assessment systems are based on an explicit separation of teaching/learning and research; however, in spite of their having enhanced both the organisation and quality improvement of each of these fields, they have also been contributing to a widening of the gap between the two and to the devaluation of teaching.The present study, developed in the UK, intends to provide some insights into the perceptions of former panel members, managers and academics, as they anticipate the impacts from REF 2014. Increasing pressure to achieve high-quality research has been leading institutions to hire the most prestigious researchers. Were there to be equivalent effort to achieve parity in the quality of teaching, this situation might be less worrying, for teaching does not currently enjoy the same investment; rather, its very inferiority is considered to have an even more negative impact on the development of new practices, as well as on student learning and support.

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