Improving psychotherapies offered in public hospitals in Nairobi, Kenya: extending practice-based research model for LMICs

This paper argues that cross-fertilization among translation academic researchers, practitioners and trainers is needed for all the actors involved in the translation enterprise. It calls for a practice-based research model to materialize the mechanisms needed for the interaction and collaboration of the three stakeholders, which would have positive impacts on the translation landscape. Given that this cross-fertilization can only be beneficial if it is structured and sustained, then it has to be formalized and institutionalized. A plan will be proposed as to how this can be materialized. It is a thesis of this paper that professional practice needs academic research (theories) to shape it, and theory can only have functional dimensions through professional practice; therefore, there is a pressing need to bridge the gap between “knowing” and “doing” in translation. To the extent that this position is valid the university is invited to play a leading role in materializing this objective, with a view to shaping the future of the translation profession and preserving translation education in Arab universities.

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Constructing Pre-Service Teacher Identities Through Processes of Parallax

LEARNing Landscapes ◽

10.36510/learnland.v9i2.789 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 489-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

R. Varainja Stock ◽

Pauline Sameshima ◽

Dayna Slingerland

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Construction ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Research Process ◽

Research Model ◽

Art Making ◽

Data Set ◽

Teacher Identities ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

Pre Service Teacher

This paper presents an arts-integrated process for teacher educators to engage their students in critical thinking, meaning-making, and knowledge construction in order to enable pre-service teachers to analyze metanarratives that inform their teacher identities. The research team used the Parallaxic Praxis research model to frame its art-making investigations in a practice-based research process. The three researchers each created an artefact as part of their individual inquiry of the data set, comprising 90 material cloaks created by pre-service teachers, to enter into dialogue addressing the prevailing metanarratives expressed by the pre-service teacher participants.

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How to Bridge Research Results to Everyday Clinical Care?

Operative Dentistry ◽

10.2341/16-154-b ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

VV Gordan

Keyword(s):

Clinical Care ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Research Model ◽

Health Providers ◽

The Public ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

Research Findings ◽

Speed Up ◽

Research Questions

SUMMARY Laboratory and clinical studies are essential to the advancement of sciences. However, a significant gap exists between the research findings and clinical practice. Therefore, research findings can be of little importance if their outcome cannot be directly or indirectly applied to everyday clinical care or readily translated. This paper focuses on how we can shorten the gap between the generation of new knowledge and their implementation into everyday clinical care. A new model is discussed where clinicians are the ones generating the research idea are paired with researchers. They collaborate on studies whose results are readily applicable to everyday practice. Partnering with health providers on studies that address everyday clinical research questions is a potential solution to speed up the translation of the research findings. Generating clinically applicable results can better improve the health of the public. Quoting Dr. Lawrence W. Green: “If we want more evidence-based practice, we need more practice-based evidence.” This paper presents the practice-based research model as a solution to address this knowledge gap.

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Exploring Health Information Technology Innovativeness and its Antecedents in Canadian Hospitals

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.3414/me09-01-0027 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 49 (01) ◽

pp. 28-36 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

M. Jaana ◽

C. Sicotte ◽

G. Paré

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Health Information Technology ◽

Health Information ◽

Strong Support ◽

Organizational Capacity ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Chief Information Officers ◽

Research Model ◽

The Public ◽

Canadian Provinces

Summary Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to assess the antecedents of health information technology (HIT) innovativeness in public hospitals. To do so, we built upon our own previous work to relate the level of HIT innovativeness to organizational capacity characteristics. Methods: We conducted a survey of chief information officers (CIOs) in public hospitals in the two largest Canadian provinces to identify the level of HIT innovativeness in these settings and test nine research hypotheses derived from the proposed research model. Results: A total of 106 completed questionnaires were received, which represents a response rate of 52%. Our findings indicate strong support for the research model. Seven out of nine hypotheses were supported indicating a significant relationship between HIT innovativeness and structural, financial, leadership, and knowledge sharing capacity characteristics. Results also reveal a moderate level of HIT innovativeness in the surveyed hospitals, with more emphasis on administrative systems and their integration than on clinical systems and emerging technologies. Conclusions: This study demonstrates that organizational characteristics are related to HIT innovativeness; this relationship holds irrespective of the public or private nature of hospitals.

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Nurses Support in Reducing Working Stress Among Medical Doctors in Public Hospitals: Conceptualizing Job Demands-Resources Model

ADVANCES IN BUSINESS RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ◽

10.24191/abrij.v5i3.9994 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 67

Author(s):

Farehan Omar ◽

Aizzat Mohd Nasurdin

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Job Demands ◽

Good Health ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Medical Doctors ◽

Research Model ◽

Working Stress ◽

Good Mental Health ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

Prolonged Stress

The last two decades of research in social and health psychology have established the cohesive of nurses support to promote good mental health and physical health among medical doctors. Although it is commonly assumed that nurses support positively predicts the good health status of medical doctors, the literature are still lacking in focusing the roles of nurses towards medical doctors in hospitals. This conceptual paper suggests how nurses support are associated with reducing prolonged stress among medical doctors in public hospitals which include to determine their health status due to lack of access to supportive workplace. The Job Demands-Resources Model and Conservation of Resource (COR) Theory serve as the foundation in developing the proposed research model. Job burnout is proposed as a mediator in the above-mentioned relationship.

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A Practice-Based Research Model for Interaction in Print Design

Springer Series in Design and Innovation - Perspective on Design ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-32415-5_13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 175-187

Author(s):

Marco Neves

Keyword(s):

Research Model ◽

Practice Based Research

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The Tambani project: A computer animation of The Greedy Hippo

Literator ◽

10.4102/lit.v33i1.27 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rita M.C. Swanepoel ◽

Christiaan Van der Westhuizen

Keyword(s):

Computer Animation ◽

Oral Tradition ◽

Community Outreach ◽

Digital Transformation ◽

Research Model ◽

Production Processes ◽

Practice Based Research ◽

Animated Film ◽

Outreach Initiative ◽

Creative Production

This article presented an investigation of and reflection on the techniques and production processes used to transform a traditional Ngano Venda folktale, The Greedy Hippo, from embroideries into a digitally animated film. The article was guided by a method derived from a practice-based research model for creative production which describes ways in which creative outputs can be regarded as a viable research option. The method comprised the documentation of and reflection on the project in three phases, namely pre-production, production and postproduction. The Tambani embroidery project is a community outreach initiative launched by Ina le Roux. Ngano is the collective noun for traditional Venda folklore. In this article, we argued that computer animation techniques could be implemented successfully in the digital transformation of a Venda folktale that was originally part of an oral tradition. We demonstrated this argument by means of Christiaan van der Westhuizen’s transformation of The Greedy Hippo folktale into a computer animation format.

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