Transcript Dissemination Research to Promote Cancer Prevention

Dissemination Research to
Promote Cancer Prevention:
Methodological Challenges and
Approaches to Dissemination
Research in Cancer Prevention
October 31, 2007
Objectives
• Discuss implications for funding of
dissemination research
• Review and compare available frameworks
• Debate appropriateness of research designs
and methods
• Identify and discuss challenges to
dissemination research
Agenda/Speakers
• Discussion with Funders
– Moderator: Howard Koh
– Panel: Jon Kerner, Robert Spengler
• Conceptual Frameworks
– Moderator: Deborah Bowen
– Panel: Allan Best, Karen Emmons,
Kathi Wilson, Cathy Melvin
Agenda/Speakers
• Research Methods
– Moderator: Marci Campbell
– Panel: Shin-ping Tu, Annette Maxwell,
Steve Gortmaker, Karen Glanz
Working DefinitionsThe World According to Bowen, Sorensen,
Weiner, Campbell, Emmons, Melvin
• Dissemination:
The evidence-based movement of programs,
policies, and other interventions from a
research setting into a public health or
clinical practice setting.
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Dissemination Research:
understanding the way that innovations
spread into society
Translation of EBIs– The Chasm
Moving Dissemination Research
Forward– Where to Start?
Conceptual
Framework
Research
Question
Study
Design
Issues to Consider in
Research Methods
• Study Design Selection
• Unit of Analysis
• Matching Intervention Strategy and Study
Setting
• Choice of Dependent Variable
• Construct Validity
Additional Issues
• Definitions and defining the boundaries of
dissemination research
• Theoretical frameworks
• Intervention delivery issues (e.g., level of
involvement and control, context/setting)
Ways the CPCRN can facilitate
dissemination research
• Contribute to the international dialogue on
dissemination science
– CPCRN papers
– Participation in concept mapping project
– Lexicon of definitions
Ways the CPCRN can facilitate
dissemination research
• Capacity building within the CPCRN
– Technical assistance (e.g., named reviewers)
– Mentoring and support for junior investigators
• Cross-centerR25T
Ways the CPCRN can facilitate
dissemination research
• Leadership in grant submissions
– Generate applications for the Dissemination
PAR (January 24, 2008): RO1/RO3/R21
Ways the CPCRN can facilitate
dissemination research
• Support for Cancer Center development of
dissemination cores
• Development of a CPCRN Dissemination
Research Working Group