RR-CLaN Sessions and Recordings
If you have any queries regarding the RR-CLaN Sessions, please email HNELHD-ResearchOffice@health.nsw.gov.au
2024 Sessions
Session 1: Rural health research and evaluation… and ethics: A session on where to start
Wednesday 7 February
This session is an overarching introduction to rural health research and evaluation and ethics. It will review types of research and evaluation, designing studies – including methodologies and methods considerations, writing proposals, and ethics.
Session 2: Preparing a conference abstract
Wednesday 6 March
This session will give you practical tips on preparing abstracts that will catch the attention of conference organisers and give you the best chance of being accepted.
Session 3: Knowledge translation: Applying the Knowledge to Action Framework
Wednesday 3 April
This session will provide you with a practical introduction to the Knowledge to Action Framework and the tools needed to frame your knowledge-practice gap.
During this session we will cover:
- Clarify the purpose of knowledge translation
- Explain the Knowledge to Action Framework
- Discuss strategies to identify a knowledge practice gap in a local workplace
- Key steps to get started for quality improvement or implementation projects
Session 4: Publicly Available Health Data: What it is, where it is, and how to use it
Wednesday 1 May
This session covers various aspects of locating and using administrative data for health research. It provides information about openly available & restricted health datasets in NSW, how to establish which data can answer your research question, and how to go about accessing that data.
During this session we will cover:
- How does the data get created?
- The pathway from data entry to data asset.
- Why does this matter?
- Open data and restricted data
- What is open data and how do you find it?
- Which data is restricted and why?
- Data Linkage
- Why linkage?
- The data linkage process.
- Research Ethics & Data Access
- When is ethics required?
- The ethics process.
- Access to restricted data
- Legislative requirements.
- Data security and confidentiality.
- Applying for access to restricted data.
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- Publicly available health data - resources and information.
Session 5: A dive into qualitative research
Wednesday 5 June
Qualitative research methods are commonly used in program evaluations, health services research, clinical trials, and other public health projects. Qualitative inquiry can bring a richness of human experience and perspective which cannot be captured using quantitative methods. Using qualitative methods can help us to answer research questions that explore how and why people act in certain ways, learn more about their experiences, enable us to understand and improve the patient experience.
This session has been designed for health professionals and researchers who would like to become more familiar with qualitative research techniques, how to design rigorous qualitative studies, or who want to understand how to critically appraise qualitative research.
During this session we will cover:
- The similarities and differences between qualitative and quantitative research,
- The key methods used in qualitative research,
- The common factors associated with quality or rigour in qualitative research, and
- Appraisal tools for qualitative research.
Session 6: Qualitative methodologies: selecting the right lens
Wednesday 3 July
This seminar follows on from the June seminar “A dive into qualitative research” which introduced qualitative research techniques, rigorous in qualitative studies and critically appraising qualitative research.
During this session we will cover:
- The difference between methodologies and methods
- The features of the common qualitative methodologies
- Finding the balance between description and interpretation
- Selecting a methodology
- Indigenous and western approaches
- How methodology affects your methods
- Reflexivity and rigour
This session will be followed in August by a session focusing on qualitative analysis.
Session 7: Qualitative data analysis in health services research
Wednesday 7 August
This seminar aims to demystify the process of analysing qualitative data. Join us and learn about the key terms, concepts, and four of the more common methods used to analyse qualitative data in health services research.
This session will cover:
- Common terms and concepts relevant to qualitative data analysis
- Key considerations when deciding which method to use to analyse qualitative data
- Reflexivity
- Four common qualitative data analysis methods and their applications in health services research
Session 8: How to search Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) to answer clinical questions
Wednesday 4 September
Evidence-based practice starts with asking a clinical question then navigating the large volume of published articles to acquire high-quality clinical research that answers the question. Unfortunately, clinicians exhibit difficulty with both of these steps. An analysis of 1.3 million PEDro searches indicated that only 50% of searches specified two or more of the key elements of a clinical question (PICO elements: Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome), 4% used features that improve the efficiency of searching (e.g. truncation), and 13% contained errors (e.g. Boolean operators).
This session aims to facilitate evidence-based practice by developing participants’ knowledge and skills in asking clinical questions and acquiring evidence using PEDro. The session is particularly relevant to anyone interested in the evidence-base of physiotherapy interventions (spanning sub-disciplines of musculoskeletal, cardiopulmonary, paediatrics, gerontology and neurological physiotherapy and more). For example, health professionals who deliver physiotherapy interventions or refer their patients to physiotherapy services.
- Devising a PICO question from clinical scenarios
- Generating search terms for each element of the PICO question
- Conducting a PEDro search to identify high-quality clinical research to answer the clinical question.
This session involves demonstrations and will promote audience engagement through:
- Participants nominating clinical scenarios that will be used to generate PICO questions
- Exploration of search terms for the elements of the PICO questions
- Designing initial search strategies for PEDro
- Refining the search strategies to identify high-quality clinical research to answer the questions.
Session 9: Writing for publication - 'IMRAD style'
Wednesday 2 October
This seminar will be presented by Associate Professor Rae Thomas, Evidence-Based Practice and Research Education Lead for the Tropical Australian Academic Health Centre (TAAHC).
2023 Sessions
Session 1: How to do a literature review
Wednesday 1 February 2023
Do you need to do a literature review but don't know where to start?
Do you want to better understand the current knowledge in your field?
Then this session is for you!
Session 2: Introduction to REDCap
Wednesday 1 March 2023
This workshop gives you an overview of REDCap functions including data management and developing surveys for distribution.
At the completion of the workshop the participant will have knowledge of:
- Stages in developing REDCap databases and creating projects
- Project workflow Key features
- The differences between surveys and data forms
- Creating and distributing surveys
- Allocating user rights and creating reports
- Advantages of using REDCap
Session 3: Consumer and Community Involvement in Research
Wednesday 5 April 2023
Do you want to be an influencer of better Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI) in research?
This session will help demystify CCI so you can.
Session overview
CCI in health research is critical to ensure the research is focuses on issue important to patients and is ethical. CCI can range from the identification and prioritisation of topics that are important to patients and the community, through to co-design and the doing of research, or shared dissemination and implementation of findings. However, involving consumers in the design and conduct of research can seem overly complicated and poor directed, which leads to many people involved wondering why they bothered.
Why should you attend?
Clinicians are uniquely placed to facilitate and lead better CCI to influence the conduct of relevant research. For some, supporting or leading CCI can be a great away to engage with a critical part of the research without the commitment of leading all of the research project. But leading CCI does not have to be complicated. By attending this session, you will gain practical insights about the role of, and steps for planning initiating and conducting CCI.
Who should attend?
All staff wanting to be an influencer of better research.
Content:
1. Terminology, types and timing of CCI in research
2. Why is CCI important, where it might not be
3. Planning and conducting CCI – roles and managing for success.
Session 4: How to read and interpret a systematic review
Wednesday 3 May 2023
Session overview
It is nearly impossible to keep up with relevant research in a clinical field. Systematic reviews (SRs) provide a synthesis of original research articles and are the highest level of evidence for focused questions. SRs are a rigorous method to review original research for a focused question, appraise the quality of the original research and combine data from good quality studies to answer the question.
Who should attend?
All staff are welcome to attend.
Why should you attend?
Appraising a systematic review and understanding how to read forest plots isn’t as hard as you think. This workshop will help you to read and interpret a systematic review.
Content:
You will learn:
- to use a critical appraisal tool to determine the quality of the SR
- how to use targeted reading to appraise a SR
- what criteria help determine whether the results of the SR are worth reading
- how to read and interpret a forest plot
Session 5: Implementation Science to improve translation of evidence-based care
Tuesday 6 June 2023
Session overview:
This session will provide an introduction to Implementation Science and highlight how it can be used to improve successful uptake of evidence-based care.
A case study: "Improving implementation of preventive care in antenatal appointments - exploring the gaps, barriers and solutions" will be presented to demonstrate the use of Implementation Science to support practice change.
Who should attend?
All staff are welcome to attend.
Why should I attend?
Translation of evidence-based care into routine practice and service delivery is often slow and inconsistent leading to unwarranted variations in practice and quality of care. Implementation Science can inform how to accelerate uptake of evidence-based care in real-world settings to improve patient outcomes. This session will give you practical insights into how best to prepare and support practice change.
Session 6: Tips and Tricks for Submitting Research Ethics and Governance Applications
Wednesday 5 July 2023
Session overview:
This session will provide an overview of Research Ethics and Governance processes when undertaking research in or with Public Health Organisations. Briefly, the session will cover:
- The purpose of ethical and scientific review of research
- Where it fits in the research journey
- The ethical and scientific review lifecycle
- Site authorisation – navigating through the Site-Specific Assessment (SSA) process
Who should attend?
This session is ideal for staff with an interest in understanding how to successfully navigate Research Ethics and Governance processes and to do so in a way that reduces multiple resubmissions to human research ethics committees (HRECs) and Research Governance Officers (RGOs).
Why should I attend?
This session will cover the basic processes of Research Ethics and Governance and the requirements for submitting research applications to HRECs and site authorisation applications to RGOs for approval. The session will highlight key areas applicants should focus-on when developing research ethics and governance applications and equip attendees with the knowledge required to successfully submit applications that reduces the need for multiple resubmissions.
Session 7: An Overview of Referencing Software for Research
Wednesday 2 August 2023
Session overview:
This session will provide an overview of Referencing Software for Research. Briefly, the session will cover:
- The purpose of referencing – why do it?
- What should and shouldn’t be referenced (cited)
- Referenced versus plagiarised
- Deciphering referencing styles
- Getting started with referencing with examples from Mendeley, Endnote Basic and Zotero software
Who should attend?
This session is ideal for staff with an interest in understanding how to successfully use referencing in written reports and articles.
Why should I attend?
This session will cover the basics of referencing and why it should be used as a standard approach to appropriately acknowledge prior research, events and evidence, plus give credit to the original authors. The processes of referencing using three commonly available software will be demonstrated, equipping attendees with the knowledge of the practicalities of referencing, including cite as you write.
Session 8: How to Develop a Research Question
Wednesday 6 September 2023
Session overview:
This session will provide an overview of how to develop a research question based on an idea that stems from a clinical or healthcare problem encountered in the workplace.
Who should attend?
This session is ideal for clinicians with an interest in understanding how to convert ideas resulting from issues, problems or inefficiencies encountered in the workplace into an answerable research question. The session will also provide foundational information for more established researchers that will help them to design their own research projects.
Why should I attend?
Research and Quality Improvement (QI) activities only generate useful information if they start with a good question. If a study idea is based on a clinical problem or uncertainty, it needs to be converted into a question to conduct meaningful research. Creating a question is a skill, and developing that skill requires that you understand what a good question looks like. This session will cover the components of a good question and outline the different types of research questions that are relevant to clinical practice.
EBP Seminar Series
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Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice Seminar Series
Seminar series overview:
Join us on an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) journey where you will have the opportunity to learn and apply the core skills needed to be an Evidence-Based healthcare professional. Over five, 1-hour sessions in October and November, we will cover the core elements of EBP, including the 5 A’s: Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply and Assess.
Who should attend?
All staff are welcome to attend. Take this opportunity to learn new skills (or refresh old ones) and apply the core steps of EBPs to answer your own clinical questions.
Why should I attend?
Providing patients with the best care requires staying abreast of current best practice including emerging research. Doing this effectively relies on having the skills and knowledge to ask answerable questions, find relevant, high-quality literature, determine the believability of this literature and apply the results in clinical settings. This seminar series will guide you through this process.
Session 1: Ask: a well-defined and answerable question. | Wednesday 18 October |
Session 2: Acquire: identifying the best evidence to answer your question and how/where to find the evidence | Wednesday 25 October |
Session 3: Appraise: determining the trustworthiness (believability) of the evidence. | Wednesday 1 November |
Session 4: Apply: interpreting research findings and their significance. | Wednesday 8 November |
Session 5: Assess: how may implement evidence-based practice in the care you provide. | Wednesday 15 November, |