The dilemma of the split between theory and reality as experienced by primary healthcare professionals: a mixed methods study of evidence-based practice in a primary care context.

Background: Primary care depends upon a good information flow across professional and structural boundaries to provide the best care for patients. Previous research has mainly focused on Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) within specific professions. Mapping of pan-professional experiences of and attitudes to EBP in publicly funded clinical practice is necessary to deepen the understanding of EBP and its implementation.

A Feeling of Ambiguity: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Managers' Experiences of Evidence-Based Practice in Swedish Primary Care.

Background: The Primary care manager plays a vital role in promoting a research culture in the healthcare center. The position involves both the implementation of organizational directives and patient care. The research culture and use of evidence influence each individual healthcare professional and ultimately the quality of patient care.

Evidence-based practice in primary healthcare from the managerial point of view - a national survey.

Background: The vast availability of and demand for evidence in modern primary healthcare force clinical decisions to be made based on condensed evidence in the form of policies and guidelines. Primary healthcare managers play a key role in implementing these governing documents. Thus, the aim of this article is to investigate the use and availability of evidence-based practice resources from the perspective of first-line primary healthcare managers.

Quality and availability of information in primary healthcare: the patient perspective.

To explore lived experiences of patients communicating with and receiving information from primary health care. Qualitative study analysing transcribed interviews by descriptive content analysis. Recruitment and interviews took place in southern Sweden in three primary care centres where privacy and undisturbed interview environments was ensured.

Promoting the creation of R&D intentions in primary healthcare measured by a validated instrument.

Background: Primary healthcare has a long and successful patient care history in Sweden. Nevertheless, a research-oriented attitude has been more or less absent in this context. In society today, access to information has significantly influenced the nature of patients' demand for up-to-date healthcare.

Creating research and development awareness among dental care professionals by use of strategic communication: a 12-year intervention study.

Background: Despite the availability of contemporary research advances, only a limited fraction is implemented into dental practice. One possible way to facilitate this process is to stimulate the research and development (R&D) awareness and interest with aid of strategic communication.

Methods: The aim of the study was to analyse the role of a strategic communication in R&D awareness and interest among dental care professionals (DCP) over a 12-year period.

Strategic Communication Intervention to Stimulate Interest in Research and Evidence-Based Practice: A 12-Year Follow-Up Study With Registered Nurses.

Background: Bridging the research-practice gap is a challenge for health care. Fostering awareness of and interest in research and development (R & D) can serve as a platform to help nurses and others bridge this gap. Strategic communication is an interdisciplinary field that has been used to achieve long-term interest in adopting and applying R & D in primary care.

Impact of the organisational culture on primary care staff members' intention to engage in research and development.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how organisational culture influences the intentions of primary care staff members (PCSM) to engage in research and development (R&D).

Design/methodology/approach: The participants (n=30) were PCSM employed in a care centre in south-western Sweden. The study had an observational design with an ethnographic approach.

Creating an interest in research and development as a means of reducing the gap between theory and practice in primary care: an interventional study based on strategic communication.

Today, healthcare professionals are faced with the challenge of implementing research results in an optimal way. It is therefore important to create a climate that is conducive to research and development (R&D). For this reason, new strategies are required to enhance healthcare professionals' interest in innovative thinking and R&D.

Utilisation of strategic communication to create willingness to change work practices among primary care staff: a long-term follow-up study.

Aim: To evaluate the long-term utilisation of strategic communication as a factor of importance when changing work practices among primary care staff.

Background: In many health care organisations, there is a gap between theory and practice. This gap hinders the provision of optimal evidence-based practice and, in the long term, is unfavourable for patient care.

The utilization of knowledge of and interest in research and development among primary care staff by means of strategic communication - a staff cohort study.

Objective: The obvious gap between evidence and practice in health care is unfavourable for patient care and requires the promotion of a scientific attitude among health care professionals. The aim of the present study was to determine the utilization of knowledge of and interest in research and development among primary care staff by means of a strategic communication process.

Method: A cohort consisting of primary care staff (n = 1276) was designed and strategic communication was utilized as a platform over a 7-year period.

Implementation of innovative attitudes and behaviour in primary health care by means of strategic communication: a 7-year follow-up.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: To bridge the gap between theory and practice, methods are needed that promote a positive attitude to change among health care professionals and facilitate the incorporation of new research findings. In this context, communication plays a significant role. The aim of this study was to analyse primary care staff members' readiness to adopt new ways of thinking and willingness to change their work practices by means of strategic communication.