What Really Matters for Supervision Training Workshops? A Realist Evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Supervision training supports health care supervisors to perform their essential functions. Realist evaluations are increasingly popular for evaluating complex educational interventions, but no such evaluations exist appraising supervision workshops. Building on an earlier realist synthesis of supervision training, the authors evaluated whether supervision workshops work, for whom and under what circumstances, and why.

Method

The authors conducted a 2-stage realist evaluation during 2018-2019 to refine and develop program theory. The intervention involved half-day, face-to-face supervision workshops as part of an Australian state-wide government-funded program for health care and human services supervisors. Data collection involved realist interviews with 10 workshop

SUBMITTER: Nguyen VNB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9311464 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature