Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, The Division of Community Behavioral Health, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, College of Population Health, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
J Community Psychol. 2024 Jan;52(1):198-225. doi: 10.1002/jcop.23092. Epub 2023 Oct 4.
Virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) can decrease social, structural, and professional isolation, provide opportunities for knowledge-sharing abilities, and may improve participants' self-reported sense of connectedness to one another and their profession. However, more research is needed to examine measurement of VCoPs effectiveness on participants. In this scoping review our research question was: What is the state of the science for VCoPs and how are these communities measured in current research specific to education and health/health education? Guided by Arksey and O'Malley's five stages for conducting a rigorous scoping review, we identified gaps in the evidence regarding the overall state of the science on measurement of VCoPs inclusive of quantitative and mixed-methods literature describing validated VCoP measurement in both English or Spanish from January 1990 to July 2023, and within the health, education, or health education disciplines. Initial searches yielded 2350 articles. Authors independently screened papers and extracted data. The results of this scoping review (N = 13 articles) highlight the measurement of VCoPs specific to education, healthcare, health education research. We found that measures had been tested in VCoPs within health, education, health education, and professional education information technologies disciplines, with the Community of Inquiry framework being the most common theoretical foundation. The findings provide an understanding of measurement tools and impacts and outcomes of VCoP participation and we make recommendations for future VCoP measurement tool development.
虚拟实践社区 (VCoP) 可以减少社交、结构和职业孤立，提供知识共享能力的机会，并可能提高参与者彼此之间以及与他们职业的自我报告的联系感。然而，需要更多的研究来检验 VCoP 对参与者的有效性的衡量。在这项范围综述中，我们的研究问题是：VCoP 的科学现状如何，以及这些社区在当前特定于教育和健康/健康教育的研究中是如何被衡量的？在遵循 Arksey 和 O'Malley 的进行严格范围综述的五个阶段的指导下，我们确定了关于 VCoP 衡量的整体科学现状的证据中的空白，包括描述在 1990 年 1 月至 2023 年 7 月期间以英语或西班牙语发表的验证过的 VCoP 衡量的定量和混合方法文献，以及在健康、教育或健康教育学科内。最初的搜索产生了 2350 篇文章。作者独立筛选论文并提取数据。这项范围综述的结果（N=13 篇文章）突出了特定于教育、医疗保健、健康教育研究的 VCoP 的衡量。我们发现，已经在健康、教育、健康教育和专业教育信息技术学科的 VCoP 中测试了各种措施，其中以教学交流框架为最常见的理论基础。研究结果提供了对 VCoP 参与的衡量工具以及影响和结果的理解，并为未来的 VCoP 衡量工具开发提出了建议。
