Monographs & Reports

This project sought to develop recommendations for the design and implementation of a Community of Practice (CoP) model to support shared priorities for cancer and chronic disease prevention. It was developed from on a high level pragmatic review of selected literature pertaining to communities of practice, a web‐based survey designed to assess structural and functional elements and overall interest from potential community members, and a set of key informant interviews held with stakeholders working in cancer and chronic disease prevention.

Toronto, ON: The Hospital for Sick Children.
Barwick, M (Ed).
This casebook is a collection of cases written by alumni from our Knowledge Translation Professional Certificate™ (KTPC) course. The idea for the casebook emerged after several KTPC alumni panel presentations that are focused on building knowledge translation (KT) friendly organizations. As we listened to knowledge translation professionals (KTPs) working in diverse settings share their stories, their successes and challenges, and their innovations, it seemed like a missed opportunity not to share these gems more widely. The desire to
practice what we preach, as it were, has culminated in the development of this casebook.

Guttmann, A (Co-SRA), Gandhi, S., Hanvey, Li, P., Barwick, M (Co-SRA), Cohen, E., Glazer, S., Reisman, J. & Brownell, M. (2017).
Primary Health Care
This Module describes the state of primary care among children and youth in Canada, including the structure of primary care delivery, changes under reform, and funding for other primary health care services such as eye and dental care across provinces and territories. It capitalizes on existing data and measures to report on the quality of primary care for children in Canada.

Barwick M (SRA), Barac R, Zlotkin, S. (2015).
Principal Author.
This is a case study of EBF interventions in two countries (Ethiopia, in collaboration with Care, and Mali, in collaboration with Save the Children) that is conceptually linked to the CFIR implementation framework (Damschroder et al., 2009), allowing for comparison of findings across contexts/countries/cases. Mixed methods combined semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs) with key informants, with baseline and endline quantitative survey data from each country. In Ethiopia, interviews and FGDs were conducted in three kebeles in East and West Hararghe: Ifa Aman, Jiru Belina, Biftu Geda. In Mali qualitative data were collected in three villages of the Sikasso region in the south of Mali: Sieou, Kiko, Nangola. In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the EBF implementation process, we examined the perspectives of both program recipients (i.e., mothers) and program implementers (i.e., International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) staff in Ethiopia, Mali and Canada; government (GO) staff in Ethiopia and Mali; community health workers (CHWs); and health extension workers (HEWs)).
Links include the research report, and a French and English language summary video of the Muskoka Initiative.

Widger K, Stevens B, & Barwick M (SRA) (Eds.). (2013).
Co-Principal Author.
The goal of our pediatric pain KT casebook is to share experiences of improving pain assessment and management practices “from the floor”. Our casebook differs from other KT casebooks in that the entire casebook relates to knowledge user experiences from one component of the same study. The typical format for KT casebooks involves compilations from
several different studies that are brought together around a particular theme, and that typically are supported by a particular granting agency. Our KT casebook approach is an evolution from this model and provides narrative accounts based on the experiences at 8 different hospital research sites (16 inpatient units) where EPIQ was implemented, as told by individuals who were integrally involved in the KT activities.

Barwick M. (SRA) (2010).
As the field of behavioral child and youth healthcare struggles with closing the research-to-practice gap and implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) and treatments with proven efficacy in practice environments, concern has arisen as to whether clinicians entering the workforce are suitably trained to take on the challenge of delivering EBPs (Barwick et al., 2008). There are a growing number of evidence-based treatments for children and youth presenting with emotional and behavioral problems. However, a handful of reports have suggested that practitioners are not prepared to deliver them or to work in EBP-focused work environments (Lehman et al., 1998; Hoge et al., 2004; Hoge, Tondora & Marrelli, 2005; Institute of Medicine 2000; 2001; 2003). We have a mental health workforce dilemma. The current study was intended to highlight what is needed to promote evidence-based practice in children’s behavioral health provider organizations, institutions of higher learning, accreditation bodies, and among researchers

Barwick M (SRA), Bovaird S, & McMillen K. (2010).
[unpublished]

Barwick M (SRA), Butterill D, Lockett DM, Buckley L, & Goering P. (2005).
[not shared electronically to protect IP]

Barwick MA (SRA), Boydell KM, Stasiulis E, Ferguson HB, Blase K, & Fixsen D. (2005).
Toronto, ON: Children’s Mental Health Ontario.

Barwick MA (SRA), Dilico Ojibway Child and Family Services & Hodges K. (2004).