McCurtin Arlene, O'Connor Anne
School of Allied Health.
Health Research Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
JBI Evid Implement. 2020 Dec;18(4):368-375. doi: 10.1097/XEB.0000000000000229.
Clinician engagement in research has the potential to improve healthcare processes and facilitate evidence-based practice. As a means to encourage clinician research engagement and links between speech-language pathology (SLP) clinicians in practice and researchers in higher education institutions, a national SLP clinician-academic research community of practice was established. The first steps for this newly formed research community was to determine stakeholder aims, to prioritize those aims and specify actions which would help respond to the stated priorities.
The study was conducted in Ireland and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists acted as a gatekeeper who forwarded a study information sheet and expression of interest form to its membership. A World Café methodology was utilized to gather data and conducted as part of the inaugural meeting where consent was retrieved. As part of this methodology, the participants created and managed their own data with the help of group facilitators.
Thirty six members replied expressing interest and 15 participants attended the inaugural meeting. Participants represented both clinical and research communities and identified and prioritized aims for the research community of practice. The aims were, in order of prioritization: Dissemination, Education, Enablers, Networking and Advocacy. Participants agreed that what they labelled as Dissemination was the number one priority for the newly formed research community of practice. In this context Dissemination referred to the identification of research already being conducted by participants and the sharing of that research both within the group and the larger SLP community nationally and internationally. Various actions were proposed to achieve agreed aims and these reflected a variety of targeted (e.g. development of a research database) and generic (e.g. to act as advocates) activities as well as local and national strategies including lobbying for clinical-research posts.
Clear aims, priorities and actions were identified by SLP clinical and research participants to facilitate the development of a research community of practice. This article presents the results of that exercise and outlines the priorities of participants who identified five aims in total. Dissemination was the number one priority for the newly formed research group and manifested a desire to share information about participants' research activities. The prioritized aims reflect assured thinking and form a solid co-constructed footing for the research community to develop and grow.
临床医生参与研究有潜力改善医疗保健流程并促进循证实践。作为鼓励临床医生参与研究以及加强言语语言病理学（SLP）临床医生与高等教育机构研究人员之间联系的一种方式，一个全国性的SLP临床医生 - 学术研究实践社区得以建立。这个新成立的研究社区的首要步骤是确定利益相关者的目标，对这些目标进行优先级排序，并明确有助于回应既定优先级的行动。
该研究在爱尔兰开展，爱尔兰言语语言治疗师协会充当把关人，向其成员转发了研究信息表和兴趣表达表。采用世界咖啡屋方法收集数据，并在首次会议期间进行，会上获取了同意参与的信息。作为该方法的一部分，参与者在小组促进者的帮助下创建并管理自己的数据。
三十六名成员回复表示感兴趣，15名参与者参加了首次会议。参与者代表了临床和研究社区，并确定了实践研究社区的目标并对其进行了优先级排序。这些目标按优先级顺序依次为：传播、教育、促进因素、建立联系和宣传。参与者一致认为，他们所标注的传播是新成立的实践研究社区的首要任务。在此背景下，传播是指识别参与者已经开展的研究，并在小组内部以及全国和国际范围内的更大的SLP社区中分享该研究。为实现商定的目标提出了各种行动，这些行动反映了各种有针对性的（如开发研究数据库）和一般性的（如充当倡导者）活动以及地方和国家战略，包括争取临床研究职位的游说活动。
SLP临床和研究参与者确定了明确的目标、优先级和行动，以促进实践研究社区的发展。本文展示了该活动的结果，并概述了总共确定了五个目标的参与者的优先事项。传播是新成立的研究小组的首要任务，体现了分享参与者研究活动信息的愿望。这些按优先级排序的目标反映了经过深思熟虑的想法，为研究社区的发展和壮大奠定了坚实的共同构建基础。
