%0 Journal Article
%T Factors that Facilitate and Impede Effective Knowledge Translation in Population Health Promotion: Results from a Consultation Workshop in Iran
%A Shahin Shooshtari
%J Health Promotion Perspectives
%D 2012
%I Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
%R 10.5681/hpp.2012.015
%X Background: The workshop that this paper reports, held in Iran in May of 2011, at the 1st Inter-national and 4th National Congress on Health Education and Promotion, had three main objec-tives: 1) to introduce participants to the knowledge translation (KT) concept, along with its mod-els and methods; 2) to enhance participants¡¯ knowledge of how KT could apply to public health education and promotion ; and 3) to learn from different participating stakeholder groups about the factors that facilitate or impede effective KT in public health education and promotion in Iran.Methods: The workshop consisted of three components: introducing the KT concept, assessing the KT capacity of participants, and facilitating a discussion of the important contextual factors that promote and impede effective KT. Of the 26 individuals from across the country participat-ing in the workshop, 17 took part in a KT capacity assessment activity. They classified them-selves into one of the following three stakeholder groups: administrators and policymakers (n=6), practitioners (n=2), and researchers (n=9).Results: There were different capacities for KT across the three stakeholder groups. The re-ported challenges for effective KT include ¡°lack of resources and funding¡±; ¡°lack of time¡±; ¡°poor quality of relationships and lack of trust between health policymakers, administrators, re-searchers, and clinicians¡±; ¡°inadequate skills possessed by healthcare professionals and adminis-trators for assessment and adaptation of research findings¡±; and ¡°poor involvement of commu-nity partners in the research process.¡±Discussion: There is a great need to develop effective strategies to overcome the reported barri-ers for effective KT.
%K Knowledge translation
%K Population
%K Health
%K Developing countries
%K Iran
%U http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/HPP/Manuscript/HPP-2-126.pdf