Division of Geriatrics, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
First Vitals Health and Wellness, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 Nov;70(11):3195-3201. doi: 10.1111/jgs.17957. Epub 2022 Jul 21.
Geriatrics research generally cumulates in academic journal publications, with variable diffusion to patients and communities. PlanYourLifespan.org is a free, evidence-based tool that assists older adults, and their loved ones, to better understand and plan for their long-term support needs. There is a need to effectively disseminate geriatrics research, such as PlanYourLifespan.org, to communities that may directly benefit from this research.
To leverage community-based stakeholder leaders, utilizing a train-the-trainer program, to disseminate PlanYourLifespan.org and evaluate the extent of the dissemination.
Using a train-the-trainer strategy, community stakeholder leaders from the original study paired up with newly recruited community stakeholder leaders. New community stakeholder leaders were trained on dissemination, using a "how-to-disseminate" web-based toolkit-developed as part of this project. Newly trained community stakeholder leaders subsequently trained additional community stakeholder leaders who conducted and tracked dissemination activities in their communities. Google Analytics tracked newly created PlanYourLifespan.org accounts, login sessions, and daily website visitors.
Five newly trained community stakeholder leaders disseminated PlanYourLifespan.org over a three-month period. Cumulatively, on the day of the dissemination activity, there were 11,361 PlanYourLifespan.org log-ins (average: 378.7 log-ins/activity day), 89,068 log-ins (average: 2969 log-ins/activity week) one-week after the activity, and 319,154 log-ins (average: 10,638 log-ins/activity month) one month after the dissemination activity. Approximately 9.4 new PlanYourLifespan.org accounts were created one-week post dissemination activity and over 1100 new accounts in the one-month period thereafter.
Wide dissemination of PlanYourLifespan.org occurred by leveraging a train-the-trainer approach with community stakeholder leaders. Researchers should consider collaborating early on with community stakeholders to meaningfully disseminate results.
老年医学研究通常以学术期刊出版物的形式累积，传播给患者和社区的程度不一。PlanYourLifespan.org 是一个免费的、基于证据的工具，可以帮助老年人及其亲人更好地了解和规划他们的长期支持需求。需要有效地将老年医学研究（如 PlanYourLifespan.org）传播给可能直接受益于该研究的社区。
利用基于社区的利益相关者领导者，通过培训师培训计划，传播 PlanYourLifespan.org，并评估传播的程度。
使用培训师培训策略，将原始研究中的社区利益相关者领导者与新招募的社区利益相关者领导者配对。新的社区利益相关者领导者接受了传播方面的培训，使用了作为该项目一部分开发的“如何传播”网络工具包。新培训的社区利益相关者领导者随后培训了其他社区利益相关者领导者，他们在自己的社区中开展和跟踪传播活动。Google Analytics 跟踪新创建的 PlanYourLifespan.org 帐户、登录会话和每日网站访问者。
五名新培训的社区利益相关者领导者在三个月内传播了 PlanYourLifespan.org。在传播活动当天，有 11361 次 PlanYourLifespan.org 登录（平均：378.7 次/活动日），活动后一周有 89068 次登录（平均：2969 次/活动周），活动后一个月有 319154 次登录（平均：10638 次/活动月）。大约有 9.4 个新的 PlanYourLifespan.org 帐户在传播活动后一周内创建，此后一个月内有超过 1100 个新帐户。
通过利用社区利益相关者领导者的培训师培训方法，广泛传播了 PlanYourLifespan.org。研究人员应该考虑尽早与社区利益相关者合作，以有意义地传播研究结果。
