Disseminating health research to public health policy-makers and practitioners: a survey of source, message content and delivery modality preferences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the views of policy-makers and practitioners regarding how best to communicate research evidence is important to support research use in their decision-making.

Aim

To quantify and describe public health policy-makers and practitioners' views regarding the source, content and form of messages describing public health research findings to inform their decision-making. We also sought to examine differences in preferences between public health policy-makers and practitioners.

Methods

A cross sectional, value-weighting survey of policy-makers and practitioners was conducted. Participants were asked to allocate a proportion of 100 points across different (i) sources of research evidence, (ii) message content and (iii) the form in which evidence is p

SUBMITTER: McCrabb S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10680334 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature