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Increasing Access to Social Care Research

Increasing Access to Social Care Research. www.ex.ac.uk/cebss Alice Moseley, Centre for Evidence-Based Social Services, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter. Introduction. Highlight some issues relating to accessing research material in social care

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Increasing Access to Social Care Research

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  1. Increasing Access to Social Care Research www.ex.ac.uk/cebss Alice Moseley, Centre for Evidence-Based Social Services, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter

  2. Introduction • Highlight some issues relating to accessing research material in social care • Mention the development of new forms of research dissemination • Discuss why these developments have occurred • Illustrate how these developments are being addressed with examples of resources available on the Internet • Introduce the main ways CEBSS is addressing the need for easily accessible social care research material

  3. Centre for Evidence-Based Social Services Who are we and what do we do? “As in other professions, it is important that professionally qualified social workers base their practice on the best evidence of what works for clients and are responsive to new ideas from research” (Department of Health, 1998: 93). Established 1997 19 member organisations Funded by DH & members Advice Training Dissemination

  4. Disseminating research at CEBSS Aims associated with research dissemination: • To ensure research findings are available to Social Services Departments when reviewing and changing service delivery, and are fed into the review process. • To improve the general dissemination of research findings to local policy makers, managers, practitioners and service users and carers.

  5. Developments in Social Care Research Dissemination New forms of research dissemination emerging to meet social care practice needs

  6. Social Care Practice Needs • Research used in a targeted, instrumental way • Practitioners need to get in, get information as quickly as possible and then get out • Practitioners don’t always have time, skills or support to access and appraise primary research from journals

  7. Example A A senior practitioner has joined a new multi-agency service for older people. Her area of responsibility is services for older people with dementia. She wants to find what the research says about which interventions are effective with this group of people. She needs this information quickly because the funding has to be allocated amongst the constituent parts of this service by the end of the next month. She is also keen to evaluate the impact of the new service she sets up.

  8. Example B A children and families social worker has a new case involving a family where one parent is supporting her 4 children (3 boys and a girl), 3 of whom have behavioural problems of different sorts. 2 of the children are under 5 and all are under the age of 10. The social worker is aware that without the proper support, a large proportion of young children with behavioural problems go on to develop problems in later life. He wants to know more about general principles of resilience and prevention, and would like to know what strategies, services and approaches would help this family.He needs this information quickly as his first assessment visit with the family is in one week’s time.

  9. What type of research dissemination suits these needs? • User friendly • Clear • Relevant • As jargon free as possible • With practice implications highlighted • With a clear description of the research methods used • With clear information about the trustworthiness of the research

  10. Practitioner friendly social care websites • What Works for Children www.whatworksforchildren.org.uk • Research In Practice www.rip.org.uk • Electronic Library for Social Care www.elsc.org.uk • Research Mindedness www.resmind.swap.ac.uk

  11. More websites • Campbell Collaboration www.campbellcollaboration.org/ • Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (Health Technology Assessment, Abstracts of Reviews of Effects & Economic Evaluations) www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/ • OT Seeker www.otseeker.com/

  12. Be Evidence Based.Com • Original pieces of primary research presented • Research Question, Key Findings, Methodology, Critical Appraisal, Practice & Policy Implications • Practice relevant topics • Search or browse • Skills section • Web links

  13. Dissemination activities • Commission and disseminate reviews of research • Commission and disseminate gap filling primary research • Development materials of skills for evidence-based practice (Formats - hard copy reports, PDF on Website, conferences, workshops, newsletter, email bulletins) • Website

  14. Training activities Appraising research • Appraisal of individual journal articles, critical thinking skills Locating research….. • Internet resources – search engines, gateways, websites, online databases • Internet skills • In depth searching on databases

  15. The State of Play… • Increasing amounts of primary research & secondary reviews of research available • New ways of accessing it • Much of internet based • Increasingly user friendly websites summarising findings from research & implications • Social care staff need skills to make use of these new resources (Internet/ database training); need time, support & resources from departments to allow them read,use, appraise & understand the research they come across.

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