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Enhancing research utilization capacity through multifaceted professional development.

Janet Craik1, Susan Rappolt

  • 1Enabling Occupation 2007, Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. j.craik@dal.ca

The American Journal of Occupational Therapy : Official Publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association
|April 7, 2006
PubMed
Summary

Occupational therapists can enhance research utilization through clinical experience, continuing education, research involvement, and student mentoring. Professional development models can improve evidence-based practice integration for therapists.

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Area of Science:

  • Occupational Therapy
  • Evidence-Based Practice
  • Clinical Research Integration

Background:

  • Occupational therapists often lack confidence in integrating research into practice.
  • Practicing clinicians face challenges in applying research findings to patient care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how practicing occupational therapists utilize research in adult stroke rehabilitation.
  • To identify factors influencing research utilization capacity among clinicians.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study analyzing self-reported research utilization behaviors.
  • Interview data from 11 occupational therapists in adult stroke rehabilitation.
  • Constant comparison analysis of qualitative data.

Main Results:

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  • Clinical experience, continuing education, research involvement, and student mentoring enhance research utilization.
  • These factors contribute to the capacity to translate research evidence into practice.

Conclusions:

  • Professional development is key to enhancing occupational therapists' research utilization capacity.
  • A model for improving evidence-based practice integration is suggested.
  • Implications for practitioners, educators, and organizations are discussed.