Child Abuse Clinical Trial
— RPCOfficial title:
Testing an Approach to Improve the Use of Evidence
Verified date | October 2021 |
Source | Penn State University |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
This work aims to evaluate an approach for improving federal legislators' use of evidence-known as the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) - which seeks to address known barriers to policymakers' use of research, including a lack of personal contact between researchers and policymakers and limited relevance of research translation efforts to current policy priorities. The RPC involves structured processes for identifying policymakers' priorities, building researchers' capacity for nonpartisan responses to current policy priorities, and facilitating ongoing and productive researcher-policymaker interactions. This implementation of the RPC will focus on child and family policies relevant to child maltreatment. This study assesses both processes for collaboration and policymakers' use of research within a randomized controlled trial (RCT) employing a mixed methods approach-including quantitative and qualitative evaluation of impact. The proposed project will be guided by three overarching questions: 1. How does the RPC impact researchers and legislative staff? 2. How does the RPC impact legislative activity? 3. How might perceptions and experiences of collaboration through the RPC relate to different forms of evidence use among researchers and policymakers? The RPC's effectiveness will be tested through experimental design (randomization) using qualitative and quantitative assessments of researcher-policymaker interactions and impact. This includes surveying congressional staff and researchers, reviewing records of policymaker's public statements and introduced legislation, and conducting qualitative interviews around researchers' and legislative staffs' experiences with researcher-policymaker collaboration prior to and during the RPC.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 322 |
Est. completion date | February 17, 2021 |
Est. primary completion date | February 17, 2021 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Participants who voluntarily enlist in the RPC will be asked to participate in the trial. Exclusion Criteria: - Participants who choose to stop participating in the study or the RPC itself. All study participants can choose to opt-out of the study at any time. |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United Kingdom | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | London | |
United States | Child Trends | Bethesda | Maryland |
United States | Penn State University | University Park | Pennsylvania |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Penn State University | Child Trends, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Penn State Social Science Research Insititute, William T. Grant Foundation |
United States, United Kingdom,
Crowley M, Scott JTB, Fishbein D. Translating Prevention Research for Evidence-Based Policymaking: Results from the Research-to-Policy Collaboration Pilot. Prev Sci. 2018 Feb;19(2):260-270. doi: 10.1007/s11121-017-0833-x. — View Citation
Scott JT, Larson JC, Buckingham SL, Maton KI, Crowley DM. Bridging the research-policy divide: Pathways to engagement and skill development. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2019;89(4):434-441. doi: 10.1037/ort0000389. — View Citation
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in Reported Use of Evidence | Congressional study participants will be asked how often they have accessed research and used research in decision-making processes in the past 3 months. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Evidence Sources | Congressional study participants will be asked what sources (e.g., personal contacts, academic journals) use to obtain evidence on policy issues. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Interactions with Researchers | Congressional study participants will be asked how often they have interacted with researchers in different settings in the past 3 months. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Attitudes and Readiness Regarding Evidence Use | Congressional study participants will be asked how valuable research is perceived by the staff and within the congressional office as a whole, as well as perceived benefit of social science specifically. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Policy Engagement | Researcher study participants will be asked how frequently they have engaged with policymakers in different activities and at different stages of the policy process. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Policy-Informed Research | Researcher study participants will be asked their perceived value in engaging policymakers in the research process, the extent to which their research activities are informed or guided by policymakers' needs, and the extent to which researchers have actively engaged policymakers in the research process in the last 3 months. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Policy-Related Self-Efficacy | Researcher study participants will be asked how confident and prepared they feel about engaging with policymakers. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Reported Policy Knowledge | Researcher study participants will be asked the extent to which they understand policy processes and norms, and the degree to which they perceive a need for additional policy training. | Assessed multiple times through study completion, an average of one year. | |
Primary | Change in Official Statement Research Use | Legislators' public statements will be dichotomously coded to indicate any type of research use. These statement-level indicators will be aggregated by legislator. | Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year following the RPC completion. | |
Primary | Change in Research Use in Legislation | Child/Family bills will be dichotomously coded to indicate any type of research use. These statement-level indicators are then aggregated by legislator. | Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year during or following the RPC completion. | |
Primary | Change in Intensive Research Use in Legislation | Each section in child/family bills will be dichotomously coded to indicate any type of research use. Each bill will be scored to indicate a proportion of sections in which evidence is used out of the sum of sections in the bill. These statement-level indicators are then aggregated by legislator. | Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year during or following the RPC completion. | |
Primary | Change in Type of Use in Legislation | Child/family bills will be dichotomously coded to indicate the observation of different types of research use (e.g., conceptual, instrumental). These statement-level indicators are then aggregated by legislator. | Bills that were introduced one year prior to the RPC implementation, during the implementation period and one year during or following the RPC completion. | |
Secondary | Satisfaction with Collaboration | Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked about the quality of the collaborative interactions, such as the adequacy of communication and working styles of fellow collaborators. | Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation. | |
Secondary | Perceived Value of the Partnership | Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked the extent to which the partnership was valuable in relation to time investment and would be worth recommending or doing again. | Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation. | |
Secondary | Perceived Impact of the Collaboration | Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked the extent to which the collaboration improved aspects of participants' work, mutual understanding, or addressed needs and common goals. | Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation. | |
Secondary | Trust and Respect | Both researcher and congressional study participants will be asked about their perceptions of the quality of their interactions with collaborative partners, including comfort, trust, shared commitment, and conflict management. | Assessed during the collaboration component of the intervention or up to one year after study initiation. |
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