Symposium

How to Leverage Engagement to Enhance Research Rigor and Foster Translational Success in Healthcare Access: Adapting, Reciprocating, and Measuring Engagement with Vulnerable Populations 9620

Corresponding Presenter(s)

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  Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo, PhD

  Social Scientist
  James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
  Tampa, Florida, United States
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  Natalie M. Gilmore, PhD, CCC-SLP (she/her/hers)

  Early Career Investigator
  James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
  Tampa, FL, United States

Presenter(s)

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  Jessica L. Ryan (she/her/hers)

  Research Scientist
  James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
  Tampa, Florida, United States

  Slides
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  Risa Nakase-Richardson, FACRM, FNAN

  Rehabilitation Neuropsychologist
  James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital
  Tampa, Florida, United States

Stakeholder engagement is an implementation science strategy designed to improve the research translation process by garnering the input of end-users in research design, conduct, and dissemination. The focus of this symposium is to illustrate two novel approaches adapting, reciprocating, and measuring engagement with key partners and persons with lived experience to foster innovative research methods and support translational success. A multidisciplinary team will present two project-based examples. The first will showcase the adaption of research design processes using real-time modifications in a think-aloud methodology to rearticulate the standards of quality data gathering practices needed in improvement and/or social research studies with populations who may have cognitive impairment. The second will describe how the use of 1) engagement strategies, 2) activities to foster research reciprocity, including adaptations for cognitive impairment, and 3) multi-dimensional engagement measurement may accelerate implementation of innovations aimed at improving access to evidence-based treatment for individuals with TBI.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the use of think-aloud methodology in measurement development.
• Describe domains measured in reciprocal engagement.
• Identify the key benefits of engagement strategies in fostering research translation.
• Describe the use of think-aloud methodology in measurement development.