Paper

Blackwell Science, LtdOxford, UKJECPJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice1356-1294Blackwell Publishing 20039 4385390Original Article‘Stages of

change’ modelL.L. Buckley et al.

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 9, 4, 385–390

E D I TO R ’ S C H O I C E

Applying a ‘stages of change’ model to enhance a traditional evaluation of a research transfer course

Leslie L. Buckley MD MPH1, Paula Goering RN PhD2, Sagar V. Parikh MD FRCP(C)3, Dale Butterill MSW4 and Emily K. H. Foo BSc5 1 Resident, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada 2 Director, Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada 3 Director of Continuing Medical Education, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada 4 Manager of Knowledge Transfer, Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Canada 5 Research Analyst, Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Canada

Correspondence

Dr Leslie Buckley Health Systems Research and Consulting Unit Centre for Addiction and Mental Health University of Toronto 33 Russell Street Toronto ON, M5S 2S1 Canada E-mail: leslie.buckley@utoronto.ca Keywords: continuing education, Prochaska, programme evaluation, research transfer, stages of change

Accepted for publication:

16 December 2002

Abstract The aim of this study was to utilize an evaluation tool based on Prochaska’s model of change in order to assess behaviour change as part of an evaluation process for a research transfer training programme (RTTP). The RTTP was a training programme offered to scientists in a psychiatry department and research institute to gain skills in research transfer. In addition to a traditional course evaluation framework evaluating...