Building operational research capacity in the Pacific

Bissell, Karen; Viney, Kerri; Brostrom, Richard; Gounder, S.; Khogali, Mohamed; Kishore, Kamal; Kool, Bridget; Kumar, Ajay M. V.; Manzi, Marcel; Marais, Ben J.; Marks, Guy B.; Linh, Nguyễn Nhật; Ram, Sharan; Reid, Simon; Roseveare, Christine; Bergh, Rafaël Van den; Harries, Anthony

doi:10.5588/pha.13.0091

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“…It would be a challenge to accommodate all the required knowledge and skills training into a 6-day stand-alone workshop, which would necessitate rethinking the objectives and curriculums of short-term workshops for clinicians who have had not had previous research experience. A series of training workshops and research courses have proven successful in generating publications (Bissell et al, 2014;Goto et al, 2005;Zumla et al, 2010) although others reported non-publication outcomes such as appreciation of the research process (Bates et al, 2007). Increase in research skills, such as conducting a literature search and writing a research proposal will most likely improve confidence to perform research (Unrau & Beck, 2004).…”

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“…Questionnaires and course evaluations tools to measure outcomes were based on previous pre-workshop and postworkshop tests, measures used in research workshops for clinicians in LMIC (Ajuwon & Kass, 2008;Bates et al, 2007;Sunita Dodani & LaPorte, 2008;Goto et al, 2005;Redman-Maclaren et al, 2010;Tomatis et al, 2011). Tools used to measure outcomes of research courses in LMIC longer than three weeks such as project reports (Bates et al, 2007) and publications (Bissell et al, 2014) were not used.…”

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Building Capacity for Research and Audit: Outcomes of a Training Workshop for Pacific Physicians and Nurses

Ekeroma

Kenealy

Shulruf

et al. 2015

Journal of Education and Training Studies

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Building the research capacity of clinicians in the Pacific Island countries is important in addressing evidence gaps relevant to local policy and clinical practice. This paper aimed to assess the effectiveness of a reproductive health research workshop in increasing research knowledge and intention to perform research amongst a diverse group of clinicians. An online survey of clinicians and stakeholders in the Pacific Islands informed a research workshop curriculum. Physicians and nurses/midwives (n = 28) from six Pacific Island countries were selected as workshop participants as part of a research capacity building program. Questionnaires before after the workshop were used to measure the changes in knowledge, confidence, competence, attitudes and intention to perform research and these were analysed thematically. Sixty-three of 85 (74%) stakeholders and clinicians responded to an online survey, which informed workshop curriculum development. Of the 28 workshop participants, seven were obstetrician-gynaecologists, eight junior physicians and eleven nurses/midwives. The mean pre-test score was 36% (10) and the post-test was 43% (6) (p<0.01). By profession, the obstetricians had higher prior research knowledge whereas nurses had a higher knowledge gain after the workshop. Attitude, intention and motivation to perform research was high and the participants learnt that research is important, to start small; to use routinely collected data; to encourage others to do research; and to network regionally. This paper has confirmed that online surveys, in low resource settings, can have an acceptable response rate. It has also shown that a research workshop for a diverse group of clinicians can be effective in increasing knowledge although knowledge gained was more significant amongst nurses/midwives compared to physicians. The other benefits of the research workshop were increased motivation and attitudes for research, which if well supported, should result in an increase in research output in the Pacific Islands. Future evaluation will assess the long-term effectiveness of annual research workshops and mentoring support in improving research performance and evidence utilisation in care.

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Building Capacity for Research and Audit: Outcomes of a Training Workshop for Pacific Physicians and Nurses

Ekeroma

Kenealy

Shulruf

et al. 2015

Journal of Education and Training Studies

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“…2 We agree, but with a proviso: capability is one element of success; an equally important consideration is capacity.…”

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“…2 Unquestionably, regional agencies and local academic institutions have a key role. However, there are few of the latter, most are short of experienced researchers, and many are financially fragile.…”

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Operational research in the South Pacific

Bullen

Griensven

2014

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“…In these four courses, 46 participants successfully completed all milestones and a total of 48 scientific papers were submitted to peer review journals-of which 33 have been published at the time of writing this review. 1 Although developed independently, programmes of this nature are in line with global recognition for the need to increase the extent and quality of research to effectively achieve important public health goals such as those reflected within the End TB strategy and the Sustainable Development Goals. 2,3 These initiatives have encouraged a greater number of research projects conducted in the region, and it is pleasing to see the results reflected both in the published literature and in important changes in public health policy and practice across the region.…”

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