Opportunities to improve policy dissemination by tailoring communication materials to the research priorities of legislators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Communicating research to policymakers is a complex and difficult process. Ensuring that communication materials have information or design aspects that appeal to groups of policymakers with different priorities could be a substantive improvement over current dissemination approaches. To facilitate a more nuanced design of policy communication materials and message framing, we identified and characterized groups of state legislators based on how they prioritize different characteristics of research.

Methods

We used deidentified data collected in 2012 on 862 state legislators belonging to the US liberal-moderate-conservative ideological spectrum and from all 50 US states. Legislators were grouped using latent class analysis based on how they prioritized 12 differen

SUBMITTER: Smith NR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895761 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature