Department of Psychology, Centre-Ville Station, University of Montreal, P.O. Box 6128, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada.
Humanov·Is, 555 René-Lévesque Blvd. W., Montreal, QC, H2Z 1B1, Canada.
Health Res Policy Syst. 2021 Jan 6;19(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12961-020-00654-1.
In this commentary, we present a follow-up of two articles published in 2017 and 2018 about road traffic crashes, which is an important public health issue in Africa and Burkina Faso. The first article reported on a research project, conducted in partnership with local actors involved in road safety, carried out in Ouagadougou in 2015. Its aim was to test the effectiveness, acceptability, and capacity of a surveillance system to assess the number of road traffic crashes and their consequences on the health of crash victims. Several knowledge translation activities were carried out to maximize its impact and were reported in the 2018 article published in HRPS: monthly reports presenting the research data, large-format printed maps distributed to the city's police stations, and a deliberative workshop held at the end of the research project. The present commentary presents our efforts to deepen our understanding of the impacts of the knowledge translation strategy, based on follow-up interviews, 18 months after the workshop, with the heads of the road traffic crash units in Ouagadougou police stations (n = 5). Several benefits were reported by respondents. Their involvement in the process prompted them to broaden their knowledge of other ways of dealing with the issue of road crashes. This led them, sometimes with their colleagues, to intervene differently: more rapid response at collision sites, increased surveillance of dangerous intersections, user awareness-raising on the importance of the highway code, etc. However, sustaining these actions over the longer term has proven difficult. Several lessons were derived from this experience, regarding the importance of producing useful and locally applicable research data, of ensuring the acceptability of the technologies used for data collection, of using collaborative approaches in research and knowledge translation, of ensuring the visibility of actions undertaken by actors in the field, and of involving decision-makers in the research process to maximize its impacts.
在这篇评论中，我们对 2017 年和 2018 年发表的两篇关于道路交通碰撞的文章进行了后续报道，道路交通碰撞是非洲和布基纳法索的一个重要公共卫生问题。第一篇文章报道了一个研究项目，该项目于 2015 年在瓦加杜古与参与道路安全的当地行为者合作进行，旨在测试评估道路交通碰撞数量及其对碰撞受害者健康影响的监测系统的有效性、可接受性和能力。为了最大限度地发挥其影响力，开展了几项知识转化活动，并在 2018 年发表在 HRPS 上的文章中进行了报道：每月报告研究数据，向城市警察局分发大幅面印刷地图，以及在研究项目结束时举行的一次审议性研讨会。本评论介绍了我们根据研讨会结束后 18 个月对瓦加杜古警察局道路交通碰撞股股长（n=5）进行的后续访谈，努力加深对知识转化策略影响的理解。受访者报告了一些好处。他们参与该过程促使他们拓宽了对处理道路交通碰撞问题的其他方法的了解。这使他们有时与同事一起以不同的方式进行干预：在碰撞现场更快地做出反应，增加对危险交叉口的监测，提高用户对高速公路法规重要性的认识等。然而，长期维持这些行动一直很困难。从这次经历中得出了一些经验教训，涉及到产生有用和适用于当地的研究数据的重要性，确保所使用的数据收集技术的可接受性，在研究和知识转化中采用协作方法，确保现场行为者所采取的行动的可见性，并让决策者参与研究过程以最大限度地发挥其影响力。
