External Validity in Research on Rehabilitative Interventions: Issues for Knowledge Translation
This issue of FOCUS discusses external validity in rehabilitation research. A checklist of external validity items is provided to help researchers write research reports that include all the information practitioners need when they see a new or revised treatment described that they think of adopting. The reporting researcher should help them answer the question "How far can we generalize this finding - is it applicable to other clients/patients, with different characteristics, in dissimilar settings treated by other clinicians?"
[On-line]
http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus33
Knowledge Value Mapping of National Organizations:
A Knowledge Translation Strategy to Efficiently Communicate Research-Based Knowledge to Multiple Stakeholder Audiences
This issue describes the results from a series of comparative case studies exploring how selected national organizations, representing different stakeholder groups, can play an important role in communicating new research findings to diverse audiences.
[On-line]
http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus32
Do Cultural Competency Interventions Work? A Systematic Review on Improving Rehabilitation Outcomes for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Individuals with Disabilities
This issue describes describes a systematic review conducted by a team of researchers trained through the NCDDR's online course. The review examined whether cultural competency interventions improve rehabilitation outcomes for ethnically and linguistically diverse individuals with disabilities, and if so, for whom and under what conditions.
[On-line]
http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus31
Position Paper
The Challenge of Evidence in Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Practice
http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/tfpapers
