Bridging the gaps among research, policy and practice in ten low- and middle-income countries: development and testing of questionnaire for health-care providers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The reliability and validity of instruments used to survey health-care providers' views about and experiences with research evidence have seldom been examined.

Methods

Country teams from ten low- and middle-income countries (China, Ghana, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos, Mexico, Pakistan, Senegal and Tanzania) participated in the development, translation, pilot-testing and administration of a questionnaire designed to measure health-care providers' views and activities related to improving their clinical practice and their awareness of, access to and use of research evidence, as well as changes in their clinical practice that they attribute to particular sources of research evidence that they have used. We use internal consistency as a measure of the questionnaire's

SUBMITTER: Guindon GE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2825186 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature