Principal speaker
Professor Souraya Sidani
Menzies Health Institute Queensland
Optimising Health Outcomes Seminar
Title
Evaluating complex interventions: challenges and solutions
Abstract
Complex interventions are developed to address complex problems. They consist of multiple components, delivered at different levels targeting patients, healthcare professionals, and community or healthcare system. The implementation of the components is demanding, usually requiring some flexibility to be responsive to the characteristics of the local context. Further, the intervention components may interact with each other to induce changes in a range of outcomes. These feature of complex interventions present challenges when applying the randomized trial design to evaluate their effectiveness in the practice setting. In this presentation, possible solutions will be explored, including the embracement of the realist approach to evaluation to clarify the interrelationships among context, intervention components and mechanism of action responsible for producing the outcomes; the generation of logic models to identify the active components and understand their mechanism of action; and the use of non-randomized trial designs that integrate a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate these interrelationships.
Biography
Souraya Sidani, PhD, is Full Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Design and Evaluation of Patient-Centred Health Interventions, School of Nursing, Ryerson University. Her areas of expertise are in quantitative research methods, intervention design and evaluation, treatment preferences, patient-centred care, and measurement. She received funding, as principal or co-investigator, for over 100 studies (about $12 million) that focused on evaluating interventions; examining patient preferences for treatments; refining research methods and measures for determining the clinical effectiveness of interventions; and evaluating the contribution of the nurse practitioner role. She has published peer-reviewed articles related to the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions, and alternative research designs (e.g. preference trials) and methods (e.g. protocol for cultural adaptation of interventions; measures of patient-centred care). Her recent books on intervention design, implementation and evaluation, and on conventional and innovative research methods for evaluating health interventions are used in graduate levels courses, worldwide.
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