Improving allied health professionals’ research implementation behaviours for children with cerebral palsy: protocol for a before-after study

Implementation Science

Dinah Reddihough⁴  H Kerr Graham⁴  Adrienne Harvey⁴  Melinda Randall⁴  Nora Shields³  Claire Kerr²  Iona Novak¹  Christine Imms⁴ 

[1] School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame Australia, Broadway, Sydney, 2007, Australia;Australian Catholic University, 17 Young Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne 3065, Australia;Northern Health, 1231 Plenty Road, Bundoora 3083, Victoria, Australia;Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville 3052, Australia

关键词: Child;    Assessment;    Surveillance;    Evidence-based practice;    Knowledge translation;    Cerebral palsy;   

Others  :  1139277
DOI  :  10.1186/s13012-014-0202-0

 received in 2014-11-27, accepted in 2014-12-23,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Cerebral palsy is a permanent disorder of posture and movement caused by disturbances in the developing brain. It affects approximately 1 in every 500 children in developed countries and is the most common form of childhood physical disability. People with cerebral palsy may also have problems with speech, vision and hearing, intellectual difficulties and epilepsy. Health and therapy services are frequently required throughout life, and this care should be effective and evidence informed; however, accessing and adopting new research findings into day-to-day clinical practice is often delayed.

Methods/Design

This 3-year study employs a before and after design to evaluate if a multi-strategy intervention can improve research implementation among allied health professionals (AHPs) who work with children and young people with cerebral palsy and to establish if children’s health outcomes can be improved by routine clinical assessment. The intervention comprises (1) knowledge brokering with AHPs, (2) access to an online research evidence library, (3) provision of negotiated evidence-based training and education, and (4) routine use of evidence-based measures with children and young people aged 3–18 years with cerebral palsy. The study is being implemented in four organisations, with a fifth organisation acting as a comparison site, across four Australian states. Effectiveness will be assessed using questionnaires completed by AHPs at baseline, 6, 12 and 24 months, and by monitoring the extent of use of evidence-based measures. Children’s health outcomes will be evaluated by longitudinal analyses.

Discussion

Government, policy makers and service providers all seek evidence-based information to support decision-making about how to distribute scarce resources, and families are seeking information to support intervention choices. This study will provide knowledge about what constitutes an efficient, evidence-informed service and which allied health interventions are implemented for children with cerebral palsy.

Trial registration

Trial is not a controlled healthcare intervention and is not registered.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Imms et al.; licensee BioMed Central.

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