IPR.Global Members Provide Online Workshop on Mixed-Methods Research Design and Collaborative IPECP Scholarship

The Network: Towards Unity for Health Online Community (TUFH) Workshop 

Using Mixed-Methods Research Methodology to Design and Evaluate Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) Initiatives

Date: December 8, 2022 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM UTC

Venue: Zoom - Free of Charge

Registration Link: https://tufh.org/events/99452/registration 

Description:

Despite improvements in the quantity and quality of evaluative research on interprofessional education, and collaborative practice and care (IPECP), there is still much to be achieved. The research agenda for IPECP should elevate the process of enquiry by focusing on examining and determining the impact of IPECP on service users. The rigorous assessment and evaluation of IPECP initiatives are essential to advancing the discipline. Mixed-methods research can assist IPECP researchers/scholars in producing comprehensive quantitative and qualitative evidence that uncovers multiple perspectives of both paradigms to determine the impact of IPECP on safe high-quality care; understanding the complexity of health care costs; determining ‘collaborative practice-readiness of health and social care professionals; and ultimately improving population and public health. Intended Outcomes: This workshop aims to connect current investigators who wish to understand IPECP and generate new knowledge in this area, using a mixed methodological approach. Participants will be introduced to the principles and key decisions necessary for rigorous mixed-methods research, and how it can be applied by practitioners, educators and health administrators to evaluate IPECP.

Presenters:

Hossein Khalili, RN, BScN, MScN, PhD, FNAP, Director, UW Centre of Interprofessional Practice & Education, University of Wisconsin; President, InterprofessionalResearch.Global

Barbara Maxwell, PT, Ph.D., DPT, MSc, Cert THE, FNAP, Associate Dean & Director INdiana University Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, Indiana University

Dean Lising, BSc, BScPT, MHSc, Team-Based Practice and Education Lead, Director, BOOST! Program, Centre for Interprofessional Education, Lecturer, Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Andrea Pfeifle, EdD PT FNAP, Associate Vice Chancellor for Interprofessional Practice and Education, The Ohio State University

Veronica O'Carroll, RN, BA(Hons), MSc, PhD.  Director of Postgraduate Teaching, School of Medicine, University of St Andrews, Scotland UK

Zaid Al-Hamdan RN, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan

Outcomes for Participants:

At the end of  the Workshop participants will be able to:

• Understand the value and impact of mixed methods approaches to IPECP assessment, evaluation, and research.
• Contrast principles and decision-making processes in rigorous mixed-methods IPECP research.
• Apply learnings to participant’s context of practice, education, and research agenda using group knowledge co-creation and integration.

Agenda:

1. Round table introductions and sharing experience and one personal goal of the workshop
2. Quick review of research in IPECP
3. Overview of commonly used mixed-method research methodology (and their common designs) in IPECP
4. Small Group Activity - Research knowledge integration: applying mixed-method research methodology in real case scenarios
5. Report out and next steps
6. Wrap Up

We recommend you to read the following article prior to the event: 

Khalili H, Breitbach A, Jensen G, King S, Maxwell B, Nickol D, et al. Global leadership in IPECP research; an intro to co-creation of best practice guidelines. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice. 2021;24:100445. 

IPR.Global Members Publish Editorial Advocating for a Systems Approach to Advancing Health Care Resilience

 Guest Editorial - Journal of Interprofessional Care

Advancing health care resilience through a systems-based collaborative approach: Lessons learned from COVID-19

Hossein Khalili, Dean Lising, Giray Kolcu, Jill Thistlethwaite, John Gilbert, Sylvia Langlois, Barbara Maxwell, Mukadder İnci Başer Kolcu, Kathleen M. MacMillan, Carl Schneider, José Rodrigues Freire Filho, Ghaidaa Najjar, Zaid Al-Hamdan & Andrea Pfeifle 

The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded everyone of the importance of long-term planning and preparedness. Effective pandemic preparedness requires the engagement of all stakeholders from across the spectrum of care while being aware of the strengths, susceptibilities, and capabilities of the health care system. Identifying gaps in preparedness, determining specific priorities, and developing plans for building and sustaining healthcare delivery while effectively addressing the pandemic and resilience at all levels from the individual, to team, organization, and system is crucial for success. There is an emergent need to build structures and processes that support resilience among current and future healthcare providers, teams, organizations, and systems. We believe that to prevent from and effectively address such crises in future, a systems-based collaborative approach to developing resilience is required. In response, InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) has recently published a Call to Action paper that provides key direction regarding interprofessional responses to address individual resilience, and support the resilience of healthcare teams, organizations, and systems.

Link to full text of article: 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2021.1981265

Link to IPR.Global "Call to Action": 

https://interprofessionalresearch.global/resilience-call-to-action/

New Article - Global leadership in IPECP research; an intro to co-creation of best practice guidelines - Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice

This article is based on a workshop presented by IPR.Global and two of its partners, the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) and the American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) at the Collaborating Across Borders VII (CAB VII) conference in Indiana, USA in October 2019 with a goal of promoting and advancing theory-driven, methodologically rigorous IPECP research.  

Facilitators of the workshop also served as co-authors of the paper: Dr. Hossein Khalili, Dr. Anthony Breitbach, Dr. Gail Jensen, Dr. Sharla King, Dr. Barbara Maxwell, Dr. Devin Nickol, Dr. Andrea Pfeifle and Dr. John Gilbert.

ABSTRACT:

The importance of integrating interprofessional collaboration in both healthcare education and delivery is well documented. Interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) has been identified as a potential route to achieve the ‘quadruple aim’ through enhancing collaboration and teamwork among professionals, patients and families. Over the last decade, the number of articles addressing IPECP within the literature has grown significantly, as has the global IPECP representation. While the quality of IPECP evaluative research studies has improved over the years, there is still much to be achieved. According to the InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) Discussion Paper, “the research agenda for IPECP should elevate the process of enquiry by shifting focus from that of program- or project-specific level interrogation to determining the impact of IPECP.”

The rigorous design, assessment and evaluation of IPECP initiatives are essential in advancing knowledge in the fields of IPECP. In addition, addressing relevant and clearly articulated research questions, that are underpinned by sound theoretical frameworks and models, employing appropriate and well-designed methodologies, and following sound and rigorous data collection and analysis approaches targeted to identifying the contribution of IPECP to achieving the quadruple aim, WHO’s triple billion targets, Universal Health Coverage and reaching the Sustainable Development Goals are critical.

To further this agenda, this paper presents some examples of applied IPECP theoretical frameworks and research methodologies and discusses their potential contributions to achieving identified global research priorities.

Access the paper via this link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2021.100445