Yes / To develop occupational therapy’s evidence base and improve its clinical outcomes, occupational therapists must
increase their research involvement. Barriers to research consumption and leadership are well documented, but those relating to
delivering research interventions, less so. Yet, interventions need to be researched within practice to demonstrate their clinical
effectiveness. This study aims to improve understanding of challenges and enablers experienced by occupational therapists who
deliver interventions within research programmes.
Method: Twenty-eight occupational therapists who participated in the Valuing Active Life in Dementia (VALID) research
programme reported their experiences in five focus groups. Data were analysed thematically to identify key and subthemes.
Results: Occupational therapists reported that overwhelming paperwork, use of videos, recruitment and introducing a new
intervention challenged their research involvement, whereas support, protected time and a positive attitude enabled it. The
impact of these challenges and enablers varied between therapists and organisations.
Conclusion: Challenges and enablers to research involvement can be identified but must be addressed within individual and
organisational contexts. Multifaceted collective action to minimise challenges and maximise enablers can facilitate clinicians’
involvement in research. Using this approach should enable occupational therapists to increase their research involvement, thus demonstrating the clinical effectiveness of their interventions. / National Institute for Health Research’s Programme Grants for Applied Research Programme (RP-PG-0610-10108).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/12940 |
| Date | 11 August 2017 |
| Creators | Di Bona, L., Wenborn, J., Field, B., Hynes, S.M., Ledgerd, R., Mountain, Gail, Swinson, T. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Published version |
| Rights | © The Authors 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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