Theme | Sub-themes | Exemplar quote |
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Awareness or knowledge of IKT | Unaware or unclear | It’s not a term that I commonly use [012CO/R] |
Equated with dissemination | It’s the process whereby information that has been generated scientifically is transmitted to others who have interest in the knowledge [017CO/RU] | |
Understanding of collaborative nature | A relationship between knowledge users and producers that can be on-going [010CO/U] | |
Researchers initiated/used IKT | I have to make sure that what I’m finding gets out there [002CO/R] | |
Need for tailoring to context/audience | Depending on who your audience is, you try and construct the activity to the audience [007CO/U] | |
Benefit of IKT | Improved the relevance and quality of research | Without that dialogue the likelihood of producing something that’s relevant in the healthcare context that you wish to impact on is lower [004CO/R] |
Inform new research questions | Stakeholders can also inform the researchers in what are research priorities etc. [011GE/RU] | |
Increase efficiency of research | Ultimately save time, money and other resources [032PR/R] | |
Facilitated learning relevant to professional tasks | There’s mutual learning and assistance to help the various participants move ahead in whatever their agenda is [022PR/RU] | |
Enhanced understanding of different perspectives | Useful for researchers to understand what the research priorities are from the perspective of the policy- makers [014GE/R] | |
Promote use of research | You’re creating a ready-made receptor for the knowledge along the way [022PR/RU] | |
Improved decision-making, policy, practice and outcomes | Bring knowledge to practice in order to improve outcomes [030PR/R] | |
Accelerates production and use of research | The best way to accelerate the process of integration of best evidence in practice, policy, etc. [014GE/R] | |
Engagement in IKT | Embedded researchers interacted with managers | Because I’m embedded-that allows that exchange of knowledge to happen [004CO/R] |
Focus on interaction with clinicians | Much of my work in terms of presentations has been to clinical people [030PR/R] | |
Managers unclear about benefit | I don’t know where there would be a benefit of direct interaction with researchers [020GE/U] | |
Researchers engaged in program evaluation | The only time that we have [involved researchers] is after the fact [006GE/U] | |
Managers prefer learning about research through publications | I really like systematic reviews of evidence so that I don’t have to sift through all of the stuff that’s out there [009CO/U] | |
IKT took place in regularly scheduled meetings | It’s generally a meeting over video-conference or a face-to-face meeting [018PR/U] | |
Challenges and enablers of IKT | Willingness to collaborate | They’re responsive and willing to learn, and collaborate with us [008CO/R] |
Innate ability to collaborate | Some people are good at committees, some are not. Stipend or formal position won’t change that [003PA/R] | |
Motivation and incentives | Researchers often are involved in research as a pure academic pursuit so they don’t think through the need to share that information quickly with policy-makers. They’re focused on peer-reviewed publication as their reward [019PR/U] | |
Need for formal linkages | You have to be linked to a program or service to really know what’s going on [002CO/R] | |
Responsibility unclear | It’s me who is initiating the request [to interact with policy makers] [008CO/R] | |
Awareness of, or access to opportunities | We don’t have the means to know about all the other forums for exchange that are going on and often they’re invitation only for people that are clinicians [029PR/U] | |
Resistance to change | Users are not necessarily so open to embracing change [023PR/RU] | |
Unintended transformation or use of research findings | It transforms the product so much that you’ve lost what was the principle research finding [004CO/R] | |
Unsynchronized timelines | It’s just synchronizing everyone towards the same goal at the same time [028PR/RU] | |
Organizational endorsement | There’s got to be buy-in from the institution [033PR/R] | |
Leadership advocacy | The manager is the interface [013GE/RU] | |
Mentors and champions | Having a local champion has been helpful [025PA/RU] | |
Time required | The biggest challenge would just simply that everyone’s very, very busy [003PA/R] | |
Resources and incentives | It’s impossible to get very busy people to do this kind of work without (compensation) [002CO/R] | |
Difficult to evaluate and show impact | It’s difficult to measure and also difficult to find an impact [017GE/RU] |