Browsing by Author "Schmidt, Bey-Marrie"

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    A planetary health perspective on the translation of climate change research into public health policy and practice: A scoping review protocol
    (Public Library of Science, 2024) Mulopo, Chanelle; Abimbola, Samuel; Onkoba, Nyamongo; Schmidt, Bey-Marrie
    Background climate change (CC) emanating from anthropocentric human activities is a great threat to the quality of human life and well-being worldwide. The translation of CC research evidence can play a critical role in promoting the formulation of climate-sensitive policies to equip public health systems for CC-associated disaster preparedness, response, and management. This scoping review seeks to explore knowledge translation approaches for promoting, the uptake, and use of CC research evidence in public health policy and practice. Methods This scoping review will be conducted according to the guidelines of Arksey and O’Malley. A search strategy will be developed for published articles in PubMed, CINAHL, and Scopus databases and for grey literature in the world health organization, planetary health alliance, and the University of the Western Cape repositories. Discussion the proposed scoping review will gather existing evidence on the relationship between knowledge translation, CC research, and public health decision-making. This will provide insights into research and practice gaps, and recommendations will be made to ensure effective knowledge translation for CC related decision-making.
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    Applying grade-CERQual to interpretive review findings: Reflections from a Cochrane meta-ethnography on childhood vaccination acceptance
    (SAGE Publications Inc., 2024) Cooper, Sara; Schmidt, Bey-Marrie
    Grade-CERQual (confidence in the evidence from reviews of qualitative research) was developed to support the use of evidence from qualitative reviews within policy- and decision-making. To date, the approach has been applied predominantly to aggregative synthesis methodologies and descriptive review findings. Grade-CERQual guidance recommends the approach be tested on more diverse review methodologies and outputs to support its evolution. This paper contributes to this evolution by reflecting on our experiences of applying Grade-CERQual to findings that emerged from a recent Cochrane meta-ethnography on childhood vaccination. Specifically, we describe the similarities and differences, challenges and dilemmas we experienced applying the approach to more interpretive versus more descriptive review findings. We found that we were able to apply the core criteria and principles of Grade-CERQual in ways that were congruent with the methodologies and epistemologies of a meta-ethnography and its findings. We also found that the practical application processes were similar across review finding types. The main differences related to the level of demand placed on the evidence and the level of complexity involved with the decisions. Compared to more descriptive findings, more interpretive findings required evidence that was richer, thicker, more contextually situated and methodologically stronger for us to have the same level of confidence in them. Making the assessments for these findings also involved more complicated forms of judgement. We provide practical examples to illustrate these complexities and how we approached them, which others applying Grade-CERQual to more interpretive review findings could draw upon. We also highlight areas requiring further discussion, in the hope that this will offer a platform for engagement and the potential future refinement of the approach. Ultimately, this could enhance the usability of Grade-CERQual for a larger range of qualitative review findings and in turn expand the kinds of knowledges that count within decision-making.
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    Defining, conceptualising and operationalising community empowerment: A scoping review protocol
    (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022) Babatunde, Gbotemi Bukola; Schmidt, Bey-Marrie; Gwelo, Netsai Bianca
    Community empowerment is a core concept in health promotion theory and practice. Several authors have defined and conceptualised the term differently. However, we did not find any synthesis of the various definitions of, and meanings attached to, community empowerment and the various conceptualisations, operationalisations, and the indicators for measuring community empowerment in the health promotion literature. The aim of this scoping review is to characterise and synthesise various definitions, conceptualisations, operationalisations and indicators for measuring community empowerment in the literature.