Making evidence from research more relevant, useful, and actionable in policy, program planning, and practice slips 'twixt cup and lip'.

摘要

The apparent loss of evidence between production and implementation has become a concern of legislators, research funding agencies, academic institutions, and professional associations alike. Researchers and journal reviewers exacerbate this slippage by emphasizing internal validity, often at the expense of the contextual factors that make science relevant to practice. As illustrated by the papers in this supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the contribution to this imbalance from researchers can be offset by their active engagement of the intended users and beneficiaries of the research in applying principles of community-based participatory research (CBPR).