University of Alabama: Diabetes Research Dissemination Plan Report

This report outlines a comprehensive dissemination plan for diabetes research, emphasizing the importance of sharing findings to empower the target audience and facilitate informed decision-making. The plan prioritizes tailoring communication to the diverse backgrounds and expertise of stakeholders, including policymakers, clinical managers, healthcare professionals, research staff, medical colleges, and patients. Strategies include developing simplified brochures with visual aids for patients and medical students and hosting conferences for broader audiences like policymakers and researchers. The report also details the evaluation of the dissemination process, focusing on both short-term impacts, such as increased awareness of evidence-based practice, and long-term outcomes, like the adoption of evidence-based interventions and the discontinuation of ineffective practices. The plan highlights the use of primary and secondary data collection, interviews, and needs assessment to ensure the research's impact and relevance. This report provides valuable insights into effective public health research dissemination.

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Dissemination of research findings is critical to empower target audience and help
them make informed choices using the recommendations proposed in research. To engage in
successful dissemination process, it is planned to consider difference in language,
background and expertise of each stakeholders. This will promote adaptation of the research
project to local areas of interest (Schipper et al., 2016). After the diabetes research report is
published and approved by the Ethics Committee, the findings of the research will be
disseminated to target stakeholder groups. The aim is take the findings to stakeholders like
policy makers, clinical managers, health care professionals, diabetes research institutes staffs,
medical colleges and universities and people affected by diabetes. The main rational for
choosing these group is that they are all important stakeholders who are involved or will be
involved in contributing to diabetes related care. Hence, the dissemination plan mainly aims
to disseminate the findings to this group.
Special brochures will be developed to disseminate the findings to medical students
and patients groups affected by diabetes. The advantage of using brochures is that it offers a
concise and visually appealing way to take the findings to broad audiences. In case of
brochures, the information will be simplified and more information will be given by graphs,
pictures and tables. This will ensure that target audience easily grasp the message and key
recommendations from research. In addition, conference will be hosted to make other groups
such as policy makers, researchers and clinical managers aware about research findings.
According to Brownson et al. (2018), conference is a powerful platform to reach public
health agencies and policy making bodies and it is the top method by which local public
health practitioner learns about a new research.
While presenting the findings at conference, effort will be made to ensure that the
conference is time efficient and aligned with the skills of attending members. It is also

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planned to measure the impact of research dissemination process. In the short term, the
impact can be evaluated by awareness of evidence based practice and self efficacy of target
audience in using the evidence. In addition, long term evaluation will be done by reviewing
uptake of evidence based interventions and termination of poor practice or interventions
(Brownson et al., 2018).

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References:
Brownson, R. C., Eyler, A. A., Harris, J. K., Moore, J. B., & Tabak, R. G. (2018). Research
full report: getting the word out: new approaches for disseminating public health
science. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 24(2), 102.
Schipper, K., Bakker, M., De Wit, M., Ket, J. C., & Abma, T. A. (2016). Strategies for
disseminating recommendations or guidelines to patients: a systematic
review. Implementation science : IS, 11(1), 82.