title: Social work roles in collaborative research.
abstract: Social workers in health care settings may be most effective in the development and implementation of collaborative research studies which jointly involve academic and health service institutions. This article describes: organizational issues significant to the integration of research into a health service system; interpersonal issues that effect the perspectives of research and service professionals in the daily operation of the research project; and social work skills for collaborative research studies. An on-going 5-year collaborative research study of approximately 7,000 participants will be used as a case example.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005193:Family Planning Services; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012106:Research; D012581:Schools, Public Health; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration*