Interdisciplinary knowledge translation: lessons learned from a mental health: fire service collaboration.

Abstract

Collaborative approaches are being increasingly advocated for addressing a variety of health, mental health and social needs for children, youth and families. Factors important for effective knowledge translation of collaborative approaches of service delivery across disciplines, however, have not been rigorously examined. TAPP-C: The Arson Prevention Program for Children is an intervention program for child and adolescent firesetters provided collaboratively by fire service and mental health professionals. The present study examined the adopter, innovation, and dissemination characteristics associated with TAPP-C implementation, protocol adherence and extent of collaboration by 241 community-based fire service professionals from communities across Ontario. Results revealed that dissemination factors are particularly important for understanding program implementation, adherence and cross-discipline collaboration. Moreover, the findings of this study show significant benefits to both within discipline (intra-disciplinary) and across discipline (interdisciplinary) knowledge translation strategies.

• Authors: Joanna L Henderson, Sherri Mackay, Michele Peterson-Badali
• Journal: American journal of community psychology (Am J Community Psychol) Vol. 46 Issue 3-4 Pg. 277-88 (Dec 2010) ISSN: 1573-2770 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 20857330 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Child
• Cooperative Behavior
• Female
• Firesetting Behavior (psychology)
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Humans
• Interdisciplinary Communication
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Ontario
• Surveys and Questionnaires