Dissemination and Implementation

Congratulations! You have your answer. Now, what are you going to do with this important new evidence? Generate new training methods? Perhaps some guidelines? Who do you need to work with your colleagues or policymakers? Please explain what you are going to do and also share whatever you generate, perhaps post it to training, slides, or policy briefs. You can even make a little video to tell others what you have found and what they could do now to implement your evidence into their practice. Also, please tell us how you’re going to take these findings back to the community where you did this study. Please click on the community engagement section and add this there, because it will show others how community engagement is an important cycle that runs through the whole process. Please tell us as much as possible here and share anything you can because this will serve to let other people know about your study and also enable as many colleagues as possible to benefit from what you have learned and perhaps take this up in their care setting, we hope it will also encourage others to run their challenge studies well done an impressive and to run through this whole process. 

There are many different ways your research study can have an impact. Some people may choose to write journal articles, while others may choose to develop toolkits. It depends on what kind of impact you want to have and what problem you are trying to address. Suppose your research study implemented some kind of intervention in your setting, and it improved outcomes. You may wish to create a plan to implement that intervention in different settings to take your research further. You may wish to develop a toolkit for implementing your intervention so that others in similar settings can test it out in their contexts, too. You may find that your intervention is working so well in so many settings that a policy paper can be drafted, and policy recommendations can be made. Whatever it may be, you can think about how to maximize the impact of your research study. 

Figure 1: What to do with research evidence 

Ultimately, it is important to note that knowledge generation takes on many forms. It’s not just about turning your research into a scientific paper. It’s about what benefits your community and addresses your research problem best. It’s also about using what you’ve created to build partnerships and further research opportunities.  

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