Abstract
Camp healthcare providers must rely on current, rapidly changing, and discipline-specific scientific evidence to care for individuals, families, and communities. Healthcare providers for camps face challenges in finding and using research evidence to inform their practice in the moment of need, in part because of the unique characteristics of their care settings. In fall of 2023, the Alliance for Camp Health (ACH) Research Committee conducted a study to determine the most frequent barriers to research utilization reported by camp healthcare providers and administrators. The study identified barriers that the researchers then classified into four categories: personal characteristics of the providers, limitations of the setting, qualities of the research, and accessibility of the research. Specific findings related to characteristics of the camp healthcare providers included their being unaware of the existing evidence and unable to understand the results or evaluate the quality of research reports (Garst et al., 2025).
This Research Note column and those in subsequent issues focus on demystifying research reports so that camp healthcare providers feel more confident in their ability to evaluate available research evidence and translate it to practice.
Recommended Citation
Kathleen B. Gaberson
(2025)
"Research Note: Research Literacy,"
CompassPoint: Vol. 35:
No.
2, Article 4.
DOI: 10.34068/CP.35.02.04
Available at:
https://open.clemson.edu/compass_point/vol35/iss2/4
