Lafrenière Darquise, Hurlimann Thierry, Menuz Vincent, Godard Béatrice
OMICS-ETHICS Research Group, Bioethics Programs, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, PO Box 6128, succ. centre-ville, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada.
Eval Program Plann. 2014 Oct;46:103-14. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2014.06.002. Epub 2014 Jun 14.
The push for knowledge translation on the part of health research funding agencies is significant in Canada, and many strategies have been adopted to promote the conversion of knowledge into action. In recent years, an increasing number of health researchers have been studying arts-based interventions to transform knowledge into action. This article reports on the results of an online questionnaire aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of a knowledge dissemination intervention (KDI) conveying findings from a study on the scientific and ethical challenges raised by nutrigenomics-nutrigenetics (NGx) research. The KDI was based on the use of four Web pages combining original, interactive cartoon-like illustrations accompanied by text to disseminate findings to Canadian Research Ethics Boards members, as well as to NGx researchers and researchers in ethics worldwide.
Between May and October 2012, the links to the Web pages were sent in a personal email to target audience members, one thematic Web page at a time. On each thematic Web page, members of the target audience were invited to answer nine evaluation questions assessing the effectiveness of the KDI on four criteria, (i) acquisition of knowledge; (ii) change in initial understanding; (iii) generation of questions from the findings; and (iv) intent to change own practice.
Response rate was low; results indicate that: (i) content of the four Web pages did not bring new knowledge to a majority of the respondents, (ii) initial understanding of the findings did not change for a majority of NGx researchers and a minority of ethics respondents, (iii) although the KDI did raise questions for respondents, it did not move them to change their practice.
While target end-users may not feel that they actually learned from the KDI, it seems that the findings conveyed encouraged reflection and raised useful and valuable questions for them. Moreover, the evaluation of the KDI proved to be useful to gain knowledge about our target audiences' views since respondents' comments allowed us to improve our understanding of the disseminated knowledge as well as to modify (and hopefully improve) the content of the Web pages used for dissemination.
在加拿大，健康研究资助机构大力推动知识转化，并且已采用了许多策略来促进知识转化为行动。近年来，越来越多的健康研究人员一直在研究基于艺术的干预措施，以将知识转化为行动。本文报告了一项在线问卷调查的结果，该调查旨在评估一项知识传播干预措施（KDI）的有效性，该干预措施传达了一项关于营养基因组学 - 营养遗传学（NGx）研究提出的科学和伦理挑战的研究结果。该KDI基于使用四个网页，这些网页结合了原创的、类似卡通的交互式插图并配有文字，以向加拿大研究伦理委员会成员以及全球范围内的NGx研究人员和伦理研究人员传播研究结果。
2012年5月至10月期间，网页链接通过个人电子邮件一次发送一个主题网页给目标受众成员。在每个主题网页上，邀请目标受众成员回答九个评估问题，这些问题从四个标准评估KDI的有效性：（i）知识获取；（ii）初始理解的变化；（iii）从研究结果中产生问题；（iv）改变自身实践的意图。
回复率较低；结果表明：（i）四个网页的内容并未给大多数受访者带来新知识，（ii）大多数NGx研究人员和少数伦理受访者对研究结果的初始理解没有改变，（iii）尽管KDI确实为受访者提出了问题，但并没有促使他们改变实践。
虽然目标最终用户可能不觉得他们实际上从KDI中学到了东西，但似乎所传达的研究结果鼓励了反思，并为他们提出了有用且有价值的问题。此外，对KDI的评估被证明有助于了解我们目标受众的观点，因为受访者的评论使我们能够更好地理解所传播的知识，并修改（并有望改进）用于传播的网页内容。
