Mentoring alone as a knowledge translation intervention was evaluated in only one included study, which showed improvement in some behavioral outcomes¶
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q2 i? Only one of the 10 eligible studies evaluated mentoring alone as a KT intervention, and it showed improvement in some behavioral outcomes compared to no mentoring. → Abdullah 2014
Evidence¶
Abdullah 2014¶
Abdullah, G., Rossy, D., Ploeg, J., Davies, B., Higuchi, K., Sikora, L., & Stacey, D. (2014). Measuring the Effectiveness of Mentoring as a Knowledge Translation Intervention for Implementing Empirical Evidence: A Systematic Review. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing, 11(5), 284-300. https://doi.org/10.1111/wvn.12060
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Systematic review of 10 eligible studies; the review reports that exposure to mentoring compared to no mentoring "improved some behavioral outcomes (one study)". No effect sizes are printed for this comparison, and the review does not name which behavioral outcomes improved in this single study.
"Exposure to mentoring compared to no mentoring improved some behavioral outcomes (one study)."
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Related Claims¶
- Barriers to mentoring as a KT intervention included staff resistance and shortage, lack of time, lack of knowledge and skills, and inadequate guidance from mentors; enablers included leadership support, staff involvement, and available mentors — related
- Multifaceted interventions with mentoring improved practitioners' knowledge, beliefs, and organizational outcomes in most studies, but showed mixed findings for behaviors and practitioner/patient outcomes — related
- Mentoring within multifaceted interventions outperformed single interventions (educational materials alone or educational meetings) on knowledge, beliefs, and evidence-use outcomes in several trials — related
- In one low-risk-of-bias trial, adding mentoring to a multifaceted intervention improved one physician behavior (antiplatelet medication use) while other behaviors showed no difference — related
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