Pre-conference Workshop 1

How to Integrate Implementation Science into your Research: Strategies, Resources, and Practical Applications

Thursday, 11th May, 15:30 - 18:00

• Hilde Bastiaens, Professor at the Centre for Primary Care Medicine, Department of Interdisciplinary and Primary Care, at the University of Antwerp, Belgium
  Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator of the EU-funded implementation project SPICES (Scaling-up Packages of Interventions for Cardiovascular disease prevention in sites in Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa).
• Heather L. Rogers, Ikerbasque Research Associate in the Primary Health Care, Prevention, and Chronic Diseases Research Group at Biocruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute in Basque Country, Spain.

Do you want to learn more about implementation science and how to integrate this knowledge into your work? If your answer is “yes”, then please join us!

Through dynamic large and small group exercises, as well as practical examples from implementation research programs in primary care, we will learn how to:

1. generate research questions that take into account implementation science perspectives;
2. select implementation frameworks, models, and/or theories appropriate for our research questions;
3. explore a menu of quantitative-qualitative methodologies and implementation research designs that align with our research questions;
4. consider what, besides outcomes, must be measured in order to make our research more meaningful;
5. discuss contextual factors that may influence our research outcomes, which are especially relevant for large-scale, multi-country studies; and
6. avoid common pitfalls when carrying out implementation research studies in primary care.