Funding agencies in low- and middle-income countries: support for knowledge translation
Funding agencies in low- and middle-income countries: support for knowledge translation
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10.2471/blt.07.040386
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2008-07-01
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Tugwell, Peter
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Cordero, Cynthia;Delino, Rachel;Tugwell, Peter
目的 目的是描述活跃在低收入和中等收入国家的选定卫生研究资助机构如何促进其资助的研究转化为政策和实践。 方法 我们对来自巴西、哥伦比亚、印度、菲律宾、南非和泰国资助卫生研究的 23 个国家和国际资助机构的有目的样本中的关键知情人进行了半结构化访谈的归纳分析。我们还调查了网站。调查结果 我们发现 23 个机构中的 18 个机构的任务中有对知识翻译的承诺。然而，缺乏通用术语。大多数活动都是向广大受众传播的传统努力，例如使用网站和出版物。此外，超过一半（23 个机构中的 13 个）鼓励研究人员和潜在用户之间的联系/交流，23 个机构中有 6 个描述了“拉动”活动，以激发决策者对研究的兴趣。三分之一（23 家中的 9 家）的资助机构描述了通过改进知识转化来增强健康公平的使命。 23 个机构中只有 3 个能够描述对知识翻译活动的评估。此外，我们发现与国际机构相比，国家资助机构在知识翻译方面做出了更大的努力。结论资助机构从事广泛的创造性知识翻译活动。他们可能会考虑自己作为知识经纪人的角色，有能力促进研究综合并关注健康公平。迫切需要评估资助机构的知识翻译活动。
Objective The aim was to describe how selected health research funding agencies active in low- and middle-income countries promote the translation of their funded research into policy and practice.Methods We conducted inductive analysis of semi-structured interviews with key informants from a purposive sample of 23 national and international funding agencies that fund health research in Brazil, Colombia, India, the Philippines, South Africa and Thailand. We also surveyed web sites.Findings We found a commitment to knowledge translation in the mandate of 18 of 23 agencies. However, there was a lack of common terminology. Most of the activities were traditional efforts to disseminate to a broad audience, for example using web sites and publications, In addition, more than half (13 of 23) of the agencies encouraged linkage/exchange between researchers and potential users, and 6 of 23 agencies described "pull" activities to-generate interest in research from decision-makers. One-third (9 of 23) of funding agencies described a mandate to enhance health equity through improving knowledge translation. Only 3 of 23 agencies were able to describe evaluation of knowledge translation activities. Furthermore, we found national funding agencies made greater knowledge translation efforts when compared to international agencies.Conclusion Funding agencies are engaged in a wide range of creative knowledge translation activities. They might consider their role as knowledge brokers, with an ability to promote research syntheses and a focus on health equity. There is an urgent need to evaluate the knowledge translation activities of funding agencies.