Christian Dagenais

Université de Montréal | UdeM · Department of Psychology

Background The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the rapid availability of evidence to respond in a timely manner to the needs of practice settings and decision-makers in health and social services. Now that the pandemic is over, it is time to put in place actions to improve the capacity of systems to meet knowledge needs in a situation of crisis. The...

Introduction : La prise de décision éclairée par les données probantes est une stratégie efficace pour répondre aux besoins de santé des populations. Cependant au Burkina Faso, le concept d’utilisation des données probantes pour la prise de décision rencontre des difficultés. La présente étude avait pour objectif d’identifier les obstacles à l’util...

La qualité de la mise en œuvre d’une intervention de promotion de la santé est essentielle pour garantir son adaptation au contexte et aux besoins des populations. Pourtant, elle est encore négligée dans les recherches. Alors qu’elle est entreprise depuis les années 1930 dans l’étude des politiques publiques, le domaine de la santé fait face à une...

Background Cannabis use can generate potential avoidable harms, hence the need for effective preventive measures and treatment. Studies show the efficacy of harm reduction (HR) in minimizing undesirable consequences associated with this use. Despite its proven efficacy, HR in cannabis use remains poorly applied by many health and social services (H...

Objective: In this paper, we evaluate the implementation of a knowledge translation strategy aimed at optimizing the use and deployment of the ÉKIP reference framework within both the education (preschool, primary, secondary) and the health and social services networks of the province of Quebec (Canada) and their partner organizations. Methods: We...

Introduction The high prevalence of cannabis use and the potential for negative effects indicate the need for effective prevention strategies and treatment of people who use cannabis. Studies show that harm reduction (HR) in cannabis use is effective in minimising the harmful consequences of the substance. However, health professionals often misund...

Over the past few years, the RENARD research team has observed a sharp increase in the need for knowledge translation (KT) training. Given the high demand, it has been nearly impossible for the team to provide training entirely in person, and so a massive open online course (MOOC) was developed. Its aim is to promote the use and appropriation of th...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the rapid availability of evidence to respond in a timely manner to the needs of practice settings and decision-makers in health and social services. Now that the pandemic is over, it is time to put in place actions to improve the capacity of systems to meet knowledge needs in a situation of crisis. Th...

This qualitative study investigated the effectiveness of blended learning using MOOCs (massive open online courses) for capacity-building in knowledge translation (KT). The evaluation followed Kirkpatrick’s updated model. A total of 23 semi-directed interviews were conducted with participants working at a research centre in Côte d’Ivoire, with a fi...

Background Evaluating knowledge mobilization strategies (KMb) presents challenges for organizations seeking to understand their impact to improve KMb effectiveness. Moreover, the large number of theories, models, and frameworks (TMFs) available can be confusing for users. Therefore, the purpose of this scoping review was to identify and describe th...

Context Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies for children and adolescents in Quebec. The prevalence of anxiety disorders is very high and has been affecting a growing number of young people for the past 10 years. It is possible to observe an increased number of anxiety prevention programs for young people around the worl...

Background: A growing number of knowledge-oriented organizations, such as granting agencies, governments, public organizations, universities, and health authorities, are investing considerable resources to increase the use of research knowledge to improve professional practice, decision making, and public policy. The proliferation of research on kn...

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In this concluding article of the special issue, we examine lessons learned from hospitals’ resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, and Mali. A quality lesson learned (QLL) results from a systematic process of collecting, compiling, and analyzing data derived ideally from sustained effort over the life of a research pr...

The management of the COVID-19 epidemic has disrupted the organization of healthcare in hospitals. As part of a research project on the resilience of hospitals and their staff to the COVID-19 pandemic (HoSPiCOVID), we have documented their adaptation strategies in five countries (France, Mali, Brazil, Canada, Japan). In France, at the end of the fi...

In 2009, Burkina Faso embarked on a process leading to the development of a national social protection policy (politique nationale de protection sociale–PNPS) in 2012. The objective of this study was to analyze the circumstances under which explicit knowledge was used to inform the process of emergence and formulation PNPS. The term explicit knowle...

Revue francophone de recherche sur le transfert et l’utilisation des connaissances

Article original : Fillol, A., McSween-Cadieux, E., Ventelou, B. et al. When the messenger is more important than the message: an experimental study of evidence use in francophone Africa. Health Res Policy Sys 20, 57 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-022-00854-x. Cet article est republié en français avec l’autorisation de la maison d’édition S...

Background Epistemic injustices are increasingly decried in global health. This study aims to investigate whether the source of knowledge influences the perception of that knowledge and the willingness to use it in francophone African health policy-making context. Methods The study followed a randomized experimental design in which participants we...

Rationale, aims and objectives: Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) have been shown to improve healthcare services and clinical outcomes. However, they are useful resources only to the degree that they are developed according to the most rigorous standards. Multiple studies have demonstrated significant variability between CPGs with regard to spec...

Background In Burkina Faso, prevalence of mental health disorders and the characteristics of people living with these disorders are scarce, especially among the poorest. Methods This study aims at providing a descriptive portrait of the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and their determinants among indigent individuals living in rural Burkina Fas...

Background Since climate change, pandemics and population mobility are challenging healthcare systems, an empirical and integrative research to studying and help improving the health systems resilience is needed. We present an interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research protocol, ClimHB, focusing on vulnerable localities in Bangladesh and Haiti, t...

Objective: Digital platforms for prevention and health promotion (PHP) are now, more than ever, available for use by school professionals, including teachers. However, little is known about what motivates them to use such platforms. A scoping review (ScR) was conducted to identify conditions that promote use by school professionals, including teach...

Par l’entremise de sa plateforme numérique, le référent ÉKIP est accessible aux professionnel⋅le⋅s du Québec des réseaux de l’éducation et de la santé et des services sociaux qui s’impliquent dans la promotion de la santé en milieu scolaire pour la santé, le bienêtre et la réussite éducative des jeunes. Une cartographie conceptuelle, sept groupes d...

Background: Epistemic injustices are increasingly decried in global health. This study aims to investigate whether the source of knowledge influences the perception of that knowledge and the willingness to use it in francophone African health policy-making context. Methods: The study followed a randomized experimental design in which participants w...

Background: Epistemic injustices are increasingly decried in global health. This study aims to investigate whether the source of knowledge influences the perception of that knowledge and the willingness to use it in francophone African health policy-making context. Methods: The study followed a randomized experimental design in which participants w...

In this commentary, we present a follow-up of two articles published in 2017 and 2018 about road traffic crashes, which is an important public health issue in Africa and Burkina Faso. The first article reported on a research project, conducted in partnership with local actors involved in road safety, carried out in Ouagadougou in 2015. Its aim was...

# Background For a patient with dengue fever, a wrong diagnosis can be fatal. Unfortunately, very few Burkinabé health workers are adequately trained to diagnose and treat cases of dengue fever. Recent outbreaks of dengue fever in Burkina Faso, which carries a significant malaria burden, have made updating health workers' knowledge urgent. Followin...

The development and implementation of clinical practice guidelines has flourished over the past two decades. Unfortunately, many studies have found that the quality of such guidelines is highly variable (Alonso-Coello et al. in Qual Safe Health Care 19:e58, 2010; MacQueen et al. in Can J Psychiatry 62:11–23, 2016); research suggests that some of th...

There is a significant gap between researchers’ production of evidence and its use by policymakers. Several knowledge transfer strategies have emerged in the past years to promote the use of research. One of those strategies is the policy brief; a short document synthesizing the results of one or multiple studies. This scoping study aims to identif...

The evidence supporting the idea that natural disaster-related prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) influences the child’s development has been accumulating for several years. We conducted a meta-analytical review to quantify this effect on different spheres of child development: birth outcomes, cognitive, motor, physical, socio-emotional, and behaviora...

Introduction Efforts to bridge the know–do gap have paved the way for development of the field of knowledge translation (KT). KT aims to understand how evidence use can best be promoted and supported through different activities. For dissemination activities, infographics are gaining in popularity as a promising KT tool to reach multiple health res...

Background All prevention efforts currently being implemented for COVID-19 are aimed at reducing the burden on strained health systems and human resources. There has been little research conducted to understand how SARS-CoV-2 has affected health care systems and professionals in terms of their work. Finding effective ways to share the knowledge and...

BACKGROUND Health systems are complex systems involving a vast range of actors. In West Africa they are often not very accessible or responsive. Burkina Faso has widely expressed, in its public health policy, the need to improve both access to quality care and health system responsiveness. There is also a strong wish to give more voice to citizens....

Background Health systems are complex systems involving a vast range of actors. In West Africa, they are often not accessible or responsive. Burkina Faso has widely expressed, in its public health policy, the need to improve both access to quality care and health system responsiveness. There is also a strong wish to give more voice to citizens. To...

Background Despite the increased emphasis placed on the use of evidence for policy development, relatively few initiatives have been developed to support evidence-informed decision-making, especially in West Africa. Moreover, studies examining the conditions under which policy-makers use research-based evidence are still scarce, but they show that...

Program evaluation can support capacity building and inform practice and policy. Yet long-term efforts to ensure evaluation use (EU) in the humanitarian sector are seldom documented, leaving much uncertainty about EU conditions. This study examined conditions that influenced EU by stakeholders of a humanitarian non-governmental organization (NGO) i...

Background: All prevention efforts currently being implemented for COVID-19 are aimed at reducing the burden on strained health systems and human resources. There has been little research conducted to understand how SARS-CoV-2 has affected healthcare systems and professionals in terms of their work. Finding effective ways to share the knowledge and...

The development and implementation of clinical practice guidelines has flourished over the past two decades. Unfortunately, many studies have found that the quality of such guidelines is highly variable (Alonso-Coello et al. in Qual Safe Health Care 19:e58, 2010; MacQueen et al. in Can J Psychiatry 62:11–23, 2016); research suggests that some of th...

Background context. For a patient with dengue fever, a wrong diagnosis can be fatal. Very few Burkinabé health workers are properly trained to diagnose and treat cases of dengue fever. Recent outbreaks of dengue fever in Burkina Faso, which is also carrying a significant malaria burden, have made updating health workers’ knowledge an urgent matter....

Background The dengue virus is endemic in many low- and middle-income countries. In Burkina Faso, the proportion of fevers that could be due to dengue is growing. In 2013, a dengue epidemic spread there, followed by other seasonal outbreaks. Dengue is often confused with malaria, and health workers are not trained to distinguish between them. Three...

Background: Dengue is increasing in its global presence with an estimated 4 billion people at-risk of infection in at least 128 countries. Despite the promising results of EcoHealth and community mobilization approaches to Aedes reduction, more evidence of their efficacy on reducing dengue risk is needed. The principal research question is to dete...

In this article, we the present the evaluation of the first phase of a KT initiative, the codification of the tacit and explicit knowledge of community social pediatrics (CSP) practitioners. As increasing numbers of professionals began working in the CSP field, it became necessary to capture the know-how to make it better understood. This first pha...

Une formation pour le dépistage des troubles du comportement alimentaire (TCA) destinée à des intervenant(e)s des services de santé généraux du Québec a été évaluée dans le but de cerner ses effets sur l’utilisation de données probantes dans les pratiques. L’analyse des réponses aux questionnaires complétés par les intervenant(e)s révèle une acquis...

Background: Dengue is increasing in its global presence with an estimated 4 billion people at-risk of infection in at least 128 countries. Despite the promising results of EcoHealth and community mobilization approaches to Aedes reduction, more evidence of their efficacy on reducing dengue risk is needed. The principal research question is to deter...

Background: Dengue is increasing in its global presence with an estimated 4 billion people at-risk of infection in at least 128 countries. Despite the promising results of EcoHealth and community mobilization approaches to Aedes reduction, more evidence of their efficacy on reducing dengue risk is needed. The principal research question is to deter...

Background A knowledge brokering (KB) intervention was implemented in Burkina Faso. By creating partnerships with health system actors in one district, the broker was expected to assess their knowledge needs, survey the literature to provide the most recent research evidence, produce various knowledge translation tools, and support them in using re...

Background: Dengue is increasing in its global presence with an estimated 4 billion people at-risk of infection in at least 128 countries. Despite the promising results of EcoHealth and community mobilization approaches to Aedes reduction, more evidence of their efficacy on reducing dengue risk is needed. The principal research question is to deter...

Climate change is one of today's major challenges, and among the causes of population movement and international migration. Climate migrants impact health systems and how their ability to respond and adapt to their needs and patterns. To date, the resilience of health systems in the context of climate change has barely been explored. The purpose of...

Climate change is one of today's major challenges, among the causes of population movements and international migration. Climate migrants impact health systems and how they respond and adapt to their needs and patterns. But to date, the resilience of health systems in the context of climate change has been little explored. The purpose of this artic...

Les auteurs rappellent l'importance de tenir compte des résultats de recherche pour les interventions des ONG et montrent les défis techniques et politiques que cela pose. Ils suggèrent plusieurs démarches favorables à la prise en compte des recherches, tout en expliquant que l'on manque encore de connaissances et d'actions à ce propos. Ainsi, ce t...

Background: In 2015, following a call for proposals from the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), six scoping reviews on the prevention and control of vector-borne diseases in urban areas were conducted. Those reviews provided a clear picture of the available knowledge and highlighted knowledge gaps, as well as n...

Introduction Deliberative dialogues are increasingly being used, particularly on the African continent. They are a promising interactive knowledge translation strategy that brings together and leverages the knowledge of diverse stakeholders important to the resolution of a societal issue. Following a research project carried out in Burkina Faso on...

Objectives: To evaluate the implementation, processes and perceived efficacy of a pilot project of knowledge transfer in public health, which involves the training/supervision of new practitioners in an art-based rehabilitation program. This innovative evidence-based intervention seeks to promote the well-being of youth with mental disorders throu...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the individual motivations influencing health professionals' decisions to work in rural areas. This study was conducted in three of the six districts of the Tillabery region in Niger (Tillabéry, Téra and Ouallam). Methods: We conducted 102 in-depth interviews with health professionals (phy...

Since 2010, the research teams that we work with have produced dozens of policy briefs (PB) with the purpose of informing the various stakeholders of the results of our studies and their usefulness regarding public health practices, decision-making and policy change. Because they are only aids to decision-making, "A policy brief is just a piece of...

Pour améliorer la protection sociale de sa population, le Burkina Faso a adopté une politique nationale en 2012. Cet article analyse le processus de formulation de cette politique en s’appuyant sur la perspective du « policy design » (Howlett et Mukherjee, 2014). Menées conformément à la démarche qualitative inductive, la collecte et l’analyse des...

To improve the social protection of its population, Burkina Faso adopted a national policy in 2012. This paper analyses the process whereby this policy was formulated, looking at the issue from the standpoint of ‘policy design’ (Howlett and Mukherjee, 2014). Conducted in accordance with an inductive qualitative approach, the collection and analysis...

Afin de fournir une protection sociale aux populations, le Burkina Faso a adopté, en 2012, sa première Politique nationale de la protection sociale (PNPS) qui intègre les deux volets de la protection sociale (assurances sociales et filets sociaux). S’appuyant sur la théorie des courants de Kingdon (2003), cet article montre que la PNPS vise à répon...

Les dialogues délibératifs, de plus en plus utilisés sur le continent africain, représentent une avenue possible pour favoriser le transfert des connaissances et l'utilisation de la recherche. Suite à un projet de recherche réalisé au Burkina Faso sur les accidents et les traumatismes de la route, une journée de restitution des résultats sous forme...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the individual motivations influencing health professionals' decisions to work in rural areas. This study was conducted in three of the six districts of the Tillabery region in Niger (Tillabery, Tera and Ouallam). Methods: We conducted 102 in-depth interviews with health professionals (physic...

Pour améliorer la protection sociale de sa population, le Burkina Faso a adopté une politique nationale en 2012. Cet article analyse le processus de formulation de cette politique en s'appuyant sur la perspective du "policy design" (Howlett et Mukherjee, 2014). Menées conformément à la démarche qualitative inductive, la collecte et l'analyse des do...

This article presents the development process of a competency model that intends to foster research-based knowledge utilization. This co-development process is aimed at identifying the necessary competencies for school practitioners to use researchbased knowledge in their practice. An analysis contextualizing the process within the scientific liter...

Policy decisions do not always take into account research results, and there is still little research being conducted on interventions that promote their use, particularly in Africa. To promote the use of research evidence in Africa, deliberative dialogue workshops are increasingly recommended as a means to establish evidence-informed dialogue amon...