NCT03671434: RPC

Evaluation of the Research to Policy Collaboration Model

Completed NA Last updated 28 October 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Research-to-Policy Collaboration in Legislation in 322 participants. Completed in 17 February 2021.

Timeline

8 January 2019

Primary endpoint
17 February 2021

17 February 2021

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Penn State University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	other
Enrollment	322
Start date	8 January 2019
Primary completion	17 February 2021
Estimated completion	17 February 2021
Sites	3 locations across United Kingdom, United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Research-to-Policy Collaboration
• Light Touch Policy Training

Conditions studied

• Legislation — all drugs for Legislation →
• Policy — all drugs for Policy →
• Child Abuse — all drugs for Child Abuse →
• Family and Household — all drugs for Family and Household →

Sponsor

Penn State University

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Legislation or Policy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This work aims to evaluate an approach for improving federal legislators' use of evidence-known as the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) - which seeks to address known barriers to policymakers' use of research, including a lack of personal contact between researchers and policymakers and limited relevance of research translation efforts to current policy priorities. The RPC involves structured processes for identifying policymakers' priorities, building researchers' capacity for nonpartisan responses to current policy priorities, and facilitating ongoing and productive researcher-policymaker interactions. This implementation of the RPC will focus on child and family policies relevant to child maltreatment.

This study assesses both processes for collaboration and policymakers' use of research within a randomized controlled trial (RCT) employing a mixed methods approach-including quantitative and qualitative evaluation of impact. The proposed project will be guided by three overarching questions:

1. How does the RPC impact researchers and legislative staff?
2. How does the RPC impact legislative activity?
3. How might perceptions and experiences of collaboration through the RPC relate to different forms of evidence use among researchers and policymakers?

The RPC's effectiveness will be tested through experimental design (randomization) using qualitative and quantitative assessments of researcher-policymaker interactions and impact. This includes surveying congressional staff and researchers, reviewing records of policymaker's public statements and introduced legislation, and conducting qualitative interviews around researchers' and legislative staffs' experiences with researcher-policymaker collaboration prior to and during the RPC.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.