■与健康研究相比,在英格兰建立和促进成人社会护理研究的努力在历史上遇到了更多的挑战,由于缺乏资源,一个部门在促进研究活动方面面临重大障碍,对社会护理研究概况的评价或理解不佳。支持成人社会护理研究的前景相当黯淡,但近年来,人们已经认识到有必要培养一个研究社区。英国国家健康与护理研究所致力于通过资助六个成人社会护理伙伴关系来投资社会护理研究能力,一个总部设在英格兰东南部。
在项目实施的第一年举办了三次大型在线网络活动,以吸引地方当局和更广泛的成人社会护理部门的管理人员和从业人员。这些活动发生在2021年7月和11月,最后一次活动发生在2022年3月。确定了两个COP,在网络事件反馈的排序和主题化过程之后,(a)在整个生命周期中支持有复杂需求的人,(b)加强,多样化和维持社会护理劳动力。虽然现在确定它们的长期影响还为时过早,通过为迄今为止举行的20次缔约方会议提供便利,除了参与平台和丰富资源之外,这些为该部门的定期交流提供了空间,缔约方会议成员之间的知识共享和联网。
■COP框架提供了一种协作方法,可以从基层开始进行成人社会护理研究。本文重点介绍了COP模型如何为知识交流提供了巨大的希望,为在我们两个COP领域中围绕社会护理产生和传播知识提供了一个论坛。
社会护理研究着眼于如何提供护理和支持,使人们能够继续独立,保持他们的尊严,帮助他们获得更好的生活质量。社会护理部门负责提供服务,并由地方当局提供,第三或私营部门组织。成人社会护理的研究对于帮助社会护理工作者了解哪些方法和干预措施有效以及如何提高护理和支持的质量非常重要。然而,在社会护理部门建立和开展研究存在障碍,包括有限的社会护理工作时间进行研究,通过提供商访问参与者,专员或无薪照顾者,由于该部门的分散性,促进或支持研究的困难。社会护理劳动力很少有机会发展他们的技能和经验来进行自己的研究。为了帮助社会护理工作者培养研究和学习的文化,我们使用了一个名为“实践社区”(COP)的著名小组学习和共享框架,以帮助形成一种涉及所有社会护理提供者和使用者的研究文化.我们通过邀请他们参加三个在线网络活动来开发COP,以确定哪些研究主题对提供者和用户很重要。然后他们的想法被放到主题中讨论,最后为COP决定了两个方面:(a)在整个生命周期中支持有复杂需求的人,(b)加强,多样化和维持社会护理劳动力。COP为用户和提供者提供了一个会面和讨论对他们重要的研究的地方,以确定成人社会护理中遇到的问题的一些潜在解决方案。
UNASSIGNED: Efforts to build and foster adult social care research in England have historically encountered more challenges to its growth and expansion compared with health research, with a sector facing significant barriers in facilitating research activity due to a lack of resourcing, poor valuation or understanding of the profile of social care research. The landscape for supporting research in adult social care has been rather bleak, but in recent years there has been recognition of the need to foster a research community. The National Institute for Health and Care Research in England have committed to investing in social care research capacity by funding six adult social care partnerships, with one based in Southeast England.
UNASSIGNED: Three large online networking events were held in the first year of the project to engage managers and practitioners from the local authority and from the wider adult social care sector. These took place in July and November 2021, with a last event in March 2022. Two COPs were identified, following an ordering and thematising process of feedback from the networking events, of: (a) Supporting people with complex needs throughout the lifespan, and (b) Enhancing, diversifying and sustaining the social care workforce. Whilst it would be premature to identify their long-term impacts, through the facilitation of 20 COP meetings held so far, alongside the engagement platforms and enrichment resources, these have provided a space for regular communication in the sector, knowledge sharing and networking between COP members.
UNASSIGNED: The COP framework offers a collaborative approach to initiating research from the grass-roots level in adult social care. This paper focuses on how the COP model offers great promise for knowledge-exchange providing a forum to generate and disseminate knowledge around social care in our two COP domains.
Social care research looks into how care and support is delivered enabling people to continue to be independent, keep their dignity and help them achieve a better quality of life. The social care sector is responsible for delivering services and are provided by local authorities, third or private sector organisations. Research in adult social care is important to help the social care workforce understand which approaches and interventions work and how to improve the quality of care and support. However, there are barriers with setting up and running a research study in the social care sector, including limited dedicated time for the social care workforce to do research, accessing participants through providers, commissioners or unpaid carers, and due to the fragmented nature of the sector, difficulties in facilitating or supporting research. There are few opportunities for the social care workforce to develop their skills and experiences to undertake their own research. In order to help the social care workforce foster a culture of research and learning, we have used a well-known group learning and sharing framework called Communities of Practice (COPs) to help generate a culture of research involving all providers and users of social care. We developed the COPs by inviting them to three online networking events to identify what topics of research are important to providers and users. Their ideas were then put into themes and discussed, and two areas were finally decided upon for the COPs of: (a) Supporting people with complex needs throughout the lifespan, and (b) Enhancing, diversifying and sustaining the social care workforce. The COPs provide a place for users and providers to meet and discuss what research is important to them to identify some potential solutions to the problems encountered in adult social care.