Public-academic partnerships: research in community mental health settings: a practicum experience for researchers.
Public-academic partnerships: research in community mental health settings: a practicum experience for researchers.
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公共学术伙伴关系:社区心理健康环境研究:研究人员的实践经验。
DOI:
10.1176/ps.2008.59.11.1246
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发表时间:
2008
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Velligan,Dawn
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作者:
Miller,AlexanderL;Lopez,Linda;Gonzalez,JodiM;Dassori,Albana;Bond,Gary;Velligan,Dawn
Public-Academic Partnerships proved these studies and supported the concept of agency involvement with research. Research recruiters had frequent contact with clinic personnel, mostly involving access to medical records and potential participants at the times of their clinic visits. Investigators sometimes met with medical staff to describe particular studies and their inclusion and exclusion criteria. Thus there were many interactions between staff and research personnel. As part of our IP-RISP, community mental health center management, clinical staff, and clerical staff were interviewed in focus groups or individually about their attitudes toward research in general and research being conducted with patients from their agency. A focus group of university-based research assistants was asked to comment on attitudes toward working at agency sites and experiences at these sites, and individual interviews were conducted with university investigators. Several themes emerged from these groups and individual interviews, and a full report is in preparation. Agency personnel identified several problems. For example, they viewed researchers as having little knowledge or appreciation of their work demands, they thought that researchers had minimal awareness of when their research-related requests (such as pulling patients’ charts) were time-consuming or disruptive, and they expressed frustration that research personnel were not readily identifiable as such and were not introduced to them. Research personnel identified problems that included a major concern that agency staff gave researchers’ needs low priority. Related to this problem was a perceived lack of appreciation of research in general and lack of awareness of research projects carried out at the clinic on the part of agency staff. It was striking that at the level of frontline clinic and research staff, frequent interactions had not produced understanding and appreciation of the roles and functions of the “other side.” To clarify Center for Health Care Services’ procedures and personnel, we designed and implemented a practicum for research personnel.