Organizational Supports for Research Evidence Use in State Public Health Agencies: A Latent Class Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Use of research evidence in public health decision making can be affected by organizational supports. Study objectives are to identify patterns of organizational supports and explore associations with research evidence use for job tasks among public health practitioners.

Design

In this longitudinal study, we used latent class analysis to identify organizational support patterns, followed by mixed logistic regression analysis to quantify associations with research evidence use.

Setting

The setting included 12 state public health department chronic disease prevention units and their external partnering organizations involved in chronic disease prevention.

Participants

Chronic disease prevention staff from 12 US state public health departments and partne

SUBMITTER: Hu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6269222 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul/Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature