Outcomes of a funding initiative to promote allied health research activity: a qualitative realist evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Providing funding for clinicians to have protected time to undertake research can address a commonly cited barrier to research - lack of time. However, limited research has evaluated the impact or mechanisms of such funding initiatives. In the current economic environment, it is important that funding is used efficiently and judiciously and that mechanisms and contexts that may assist with maximising outcomes of funding initiatives are identified. This study aimed to describe the medium-term outcomes of a funding initiative to promote allied health research activity and to identify the key mechanisms and contexts that facilitated these outcomes.

Methods

We used a qualitative research design informed by a realist evaluation, to conduct 10 semi-structured interviews

SUBMITTER: Hilder J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7305620 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature