Gathering opinion leader data for a tailored implementation intervention in secondary healthcare: a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health professionals' behaviour is a key component in compliance with evidence-based recommendations. Opinion leaders are an oft-used method of influencing such behaviours in implementation studies, but reliably and cost effectively identifying them is not straightforward. Survey and questionnaire based data collection methods have potential and carefully chosen items can - in theory - both aid identification of opinion leaders and help in the design of an implementation strategy itself. This study compares two methods of identifying opinion leaders for behaviour-change interventions.

Methods

Healthcare professionals working in a single UK mental health NHS Foundation Trust were randomly allocated to one of two questionnaires. The first, slightly longer questionna

SUBMITTER: Farley K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4015818 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature