Multifaceted interventions with mentoring improved practitioners' knowledge, beliefs, and organizational outcomes in most studies, but showed mixed findings for behaviors and practitioner/patient outcomes¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Compared to controls or other multifaceted interventions, multifaceted interventions with mentoring improved practitioners' knowledge in four of five studies, beliefs in four of six studies, and impact on organizational outcomes in three of four studies. → Abdullah 2014 q2 i? Findings were mixed for changes in professionals' behaviors and impact on practitioners' and patients' outcomes: some outcomes improved while others showed no difference. → 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

q3 · i? · review · r3

The review's descriptive synthesis across 10 studies (six cluster RCTs, one CCT, one CBA, two pre/post studies) reports these vote counts; data were analyzed descriptively due to heterogeneity across study outcomes, so no pooled effect sizes are printed.

"Compared to controls or other multifaceted interventions, multifaceted interventions with mentoring improved practitioners’ knowledge (four of five studies), beliefs (four of six studies), and impact on organizational outcomes (three of four studies)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• 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 — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Mentoring alone as a knowledge translation intervention was evaluated in only one included study, which showed improvement in some behavioral outcomes — related
• Mentoring within multifaceted interventions compared to no intervention showed mixed effects on knowledge use, practitioner, and organizational outcomes — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Mentoring within multifaceted interventions outperformed single interventions (educational materials alone or educational meetings) on knowledge, beliefs, and evidence-use outcomes in several trials — a narrower finding that bears on this claim