Veterinarian barriers to knowledge translation (KT) within the context of swine infectious disease research: an international survey of swine veterinarians.

Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101249759 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1746-6148 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 17466148 NLM ISO Abbreviation: BMC Vet Res Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: London : BioMed Central, 2005-

Swine Diseases* ; Translational Research, Biomedical*; Evidence-Based Medicine/*methods ; Veterinarians/*statistics & numerical data; Animals ; Communicable Diseases/veterinary ; Humans ; Periodicals as Topic ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Swine ; Veterinarians/psychology ; Veterinary Medicine/methods

Background: Food animal veterinarians face commodity specific and urgent global challenges yet conditions preventing use of best available knowledge have been sparsely studied. The American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) membership (N = 1289) was surveyed online to benchmark their information priorities and their motivations and sources for keeping current with infectious disease research, and to describe their reported time, skill, access, and process as barriers to knowledge translation (KT).
Results: Respondents (n = 80) were mostly from Canada (n = 40) and the U.S.A (n = 31) and demographics approximated the AASV's. Colleagues are the first choice for information on difficult cases (49%, 95%CI: 38-61). Half of respondents (53%, 95%CI: 41-64) spend an hour or less per week keeping up with infectious disease research. The majority reported moderate or less than moderate efficiency (62%, 95%CI: 51-72), and moderate or greater stress (59%, 95%CI: 48-70) with their process for keeping up. Journal article methods sections are commonly not read, almost a third (32%, 95% CI: 22-43) reported either they do not evaluate statistical methods or that they had poor confidence to do so, and half (52, 95%CI: 41-63) could not explain 'confounding bias'. Approximately half (55%, 95%CI: 41-69) with direct oversight of swine herds had full access to 2 or fewer academic journals. Approximately a third of respondents (34%, 95%CI: 24-46) selected only formats involving single research studies (either full text or summaries) as preferred reading materials for keeping current over expert summaries of the body of evidence.
Conclusion: KT barriers are considerable and a source of stress for many swine veterinarians. Sub-optimal efficiency with keeping up and low confidence to appraise aspects of research are concerns. Results are consistent with previous literature and illustrate need for improved KT infrastructure and for additional training in statistical methods and interpretation of primary research. Further evaluation is warranted of why approximately a third of veterinarians in this study, for the purpose of keeping up, preferentially choose to review individual research studies over choices that would include an expert summary of the body of evidence. Consideration of reasons for this preference will be important in the planning of KT infrastructure improvements.

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KTT2015-10253 Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs

Keywords: Evidence based medicine; Information sources; Knowledge translation; Questionnaire; Research synthesis; Survey; Swine infectious disease; Veterinarian

Date Created: 20201103 Date Completed: 20210525 Latest Revision: 20211204

20221213

PMC7607664

10.1186/s12917-020-02617-8

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