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Improving employer and employee well-being in small and medium-sized enterprises in Flanders: a realist evaluation protocol of the FitBonus program [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background High levels of absenteeism, presenteeism, and productivity loss are significant issues, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which form a large part of the workforce in Flanders.
Fleur Van De Wielle, Robin Vandecasteele, Vera Verbestel, Maïté Verloigne, Benedicte Deforche, Rik Crutzen, Els Clays   +6 more
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Realist evaluation of factors affecting the retention of the mental health workforce: building a realist programme theory [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objective The shortage of mental healthcare workforce is a global problem. Mental health services have higher staff turnover and more vacancies than the health sector average.
Elizabeth Lumley, Scott Weich, Emily Wood, Michaela Senek, Tony Ryan, Joe Hulin, Jaqui Long, Sally Ohlsen, Rachael Finn   +8 more
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Optimising delivery of integrated palliative care and heart failure services: A realist evaluation protocol (PalliatHeartSynthesis II). [PDF]

PLoS ONE
BackgroundInequality in palliative care provision is an ongoing problem for underserved groups, such as those with heart failure (HF) placing a burden on patients, their caregivers and health services due to frequent, often avoidable hospitalisations ...
Tracey McConnell, David Scott, Geoffrey Wong, Loreena Hill, Miriam J Johnson, Yvonne Millerick, Joy Ross, Clea Atkinson, Linda Cooper, John Burden, Rachel Campbell, Andrew Kerr, Honey Thomas, Joanne Reid   +13 more
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A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland : how did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic?

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Introduction Social support is described by patients and other stakeholders to be a valuable component of palliative day care. Less is known about the range of hospice services that have been used in practice that facilitate social support.
NM Bradley, CF Dowrick, M Lloyd-Williams
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Realist evaluation of social and behaviour change interventions: Co-building theory and evidence of impact

African Evaluation Journal, 2022
Background: A complexity-aware approach, realist evaluation is ideal for norms-shifting interventions (NSIs), which are not well-understood but gaining prominence in behaviour change programming in Africa and globally to foster enabling socionormative ...
Susan Igras, Mariam Diakité, Anjalee Kohli, Carley Fogliani   +3 more
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What Works for whom in which Circumstances? An Integrated Realist Evaluation Model for Organisational Interventions

Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2023
Realist evaluation is a recommended approach to evaluate organisational interventions. It examines how specific intervention mechanisms work in a given context to produce certain outcomes through developing and testing Context-Mechanism-Outcome (CMO ...
Hamid Roodbari, Karina Nielsen, Carolyn Axtell   +2 more
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Benefits of realist evaluation for rapidly changing health service delivery

BMJ Open, 2022
Realist evaluation is a methodology that addresses the questions: ‘what works, for whom, in which circumstances, and how?’. In this approach, programme theories are developed and tested against available evidence.
Paula Kersten, Margaret Cupples, Rachel Thomas, Fiona Cramp, Nicola E Walsh, Justin Jagosh, Hannah Stott, Serena Halls, Cathy Liddiard, Dave Foster   +9 more
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Making implementation science more real

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Implementation science in healthcare aims to understand how to get evidence into practice. Once this is achieved in one setting, it becomes increasingly difficult to replicate elsewhere.
Mitchell N. Sarkies, Emilie Francis-Auton, Janet C. Long, Chiara Pomare, Rebecca Hardwick, Jeffrey Braithwaite   +5 more
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Sig realist research design and evaluation for integrated care, wokring meeting

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Background: Realist philosophy and methodology is increasingly being explicitly used in the field of integrated care to research the extant context, structure and mechanisms at play, and to design and evaluation interventions.
John Eastwood, Erin Miller, Roelof Ettema   +2 more
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Preventing polarization: An empirical evaluation of a dialogue training

Cogent Social Sciences, 2020
Governments implement many anti-polarization-programs to prevent radicalization. Evaluations of these programs give insights in either (psychological) effects, program-mechanisms or contexts, but often do not show how they interact.
Norah Schulten, Floris F. Vermeulen, Bertjan Doosje   +2 more
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