Behavioural and Implementation Science Service (BISS)

Scientific Lead: Dr. Justin Presseau

The Ottawa Method Centre’s (OMC) Behavioural and Implementation Science Service (BISS) provides support and expertise to internal and external requestors seeking advice and/or evaluative activities that draw upon knowledge translation (KT), implementation science, and/or behavioural science. BISS will operate as a hub-and-spoke model to enable in-house rapid responses and triaging to external partners when local capacity is more limited. The BISS mission is to provide rapid and rigorous service that includes guidance, support for multi-method research methods, and expertise to requestors interested in applying behavioural science or implementation science to planned or ongoing research activities aimed at improving health and healthcare outcomes. BISS also draws upon a broad network of research expertise from world-class researchers within the OMC and Centre for Implementation Research. BISS operates as a centre of expertise linking to a large extended network of contributors from across Canada (e.g., Evidence Synthesis Network – Canada).

Services offered

• Initial guidance on approaches for incorporating behavioural, implementation and/or knowledge translation/knowledge mobilization approaches into planned or on-going projects.
• Advice on the use of qualitative (interviews, focus groups), questionnaires/surveys, evidence syntheses (rapid, scoping, systematic reviews or qualitative meta-syntheses) that are focused directly on questions of behaviour change or practice change.
• Advice on tools and frameworks that can be best suited to inform behavioural science or implementation science approaches.

• Conducting all or parts of qualitative studies (interviews, focus groups) to establish theory-informed barriers and enablers to change (e.g., diagnosis/treatment behaviours of healthcare providers, patient adherence, care-taker support, decision-maker support).
• Conducting all or parts of surveys to identify theory-based factors associated with behaviours of interest.
• Process evaluation: Multi-method acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, and fidelity assessment of behavioural and implementation interventions alongside trials.
• Consultation on data collection and analysis to establish theory-based factors associated with behaviours of interest, or assessment of behavioural or implementation interventions.

• Evaluation of theory-based factors associated with behaviours of interest.
• Assessment of acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, and fidelity of behavioural interventions.
• Investigation of content of behavioural or implementation interventions using state of the science taxonomies and ontologies.
• Consultation on related review protocol development.
• Consultation on related clinical practice guideline development methods

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