title: The relevance of qualitative research for clinical programs in psychiatry.
abstract: It is time to move beyond education about qualitative research theory and methods to using them to understand and improve psychiatric practice. There is a good fit between this agenda and current thinking about research use that broadens definitions of evidence beyond the results of experiments. This paper describes a qualitative program evaluation to illustrate what kind of useful knowledge is generated and how it can be created through a clinician-researcher partnership. The linkage and exchange model of effective knowledge translation described involves interaction between clinicians and researchers throughout the research process and results in mutual learning through the planning, disseminating, and application of existing or new qualitative research in decision making.
authors.affiliation: Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario. paula_goering@camh.net
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Goering
authors.forename: Katherine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Boydell
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pignatiello
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002170:Canada; D003657:Decision Making; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007391:International Cooperation; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016730:Program Development; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*