Overview
Our Vision: National access to evidence-informed practice guidelines
Our vision is to see a Canada where those who are in positions to help smokers make changes to their behaviour (e.g., practitioners, healthcare/service providers) have easy access to the tools needed to deliver up-to-date evidence-based smoking cessation interventions, ultimately helping reduce the prevalence of tobacco use and dependence.
Overall Goal: Building bridges between research and practice
The overall goal of CAN-ADAPTT is to facilitate research and knowledge exchange among practitioners and health care/service providers and tobacco control researchers to inform the development of a dynamic set of cessation guidelines for use in clinical practice and population-based strategies within Canada.
CAN-ADAPTT is designed to engage practitioners and health care/service providers in a “bottom-up” process whereby research questions arise from front-line practice, positioning the research to produce results that are clinically relevant and readily usable to those in a position to help smokers.
Main Objectives
- National Network: To create a national network of smoking cessation researchers, policy/decision- makers and practitioners/providers to inform smoking cessation research and practice.
- Research Agenda: To develop a practice-informed research agenda in key areas of smoking cessation that bridges the gaps between clinical practice, research and theoretical frameworks.
- Knowledge Translation: To translate research findings into a dynamic set of evidence-based guidelines on smoking cessation (i.e., Wiki-guidelines).
- Dissemination and Engagement: To disseminate findings and engage stakeholders from national and professional organizations to promote the adoption of the Wiki-guidelines.
- Collaboration: To collaborate with other projects in tobacco control.
- Evaluation: To evaluate the system and population impacts of the proposed practice-based research network.