There are many examples of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) among public health professionals and organizations in Canada. However, there are limited mechanisms in place to facilitate the sharing of these stories within the public health community. The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) seeks to address this gap with an interactive, peer-led webinar series featuring a collection of EIDM success stories in public health.
These success stories will illustrate what EIDM in public health practice, programs and policy looks like across the country.
Join us to engage with public health practitioners across Canada as they share their success stories of using or implementing EIDM in the real world. Learn about the strategies and tools used by presenters to improve the use of evidence. Each webinar will feature two presentations. This series will feature authors from the NCCMT’s EIDM Casebook as well as other presenters.
Effective Psychological and Psychosocial Interventions to Prevent Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Review and Applicability Assessment
Becky Blair, Louise Azzara, John Barbaro, and Amy Faulkner, Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit
A higher-than-provincial-average rate of mental health concerns during pregnancy in the SMDHU catchment area prompted a review of the evidence for interventions to prevent perinatal mood disorders. Learn more about how this team synthesized available evidence and shared it with decision makers.
Building a Best Practice Tool to Address the Needs of Clients with Hepatitis C
Mary Guyton and Heidi Parker, Sherbourne Health Centre Site
Following Hepatitis C care integration within primary care settings, there was a lack of resources tailored to primary care nurses caring for Hep C patients. Learn more about how a best practice resource tool was developed to fill a resource gap.
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Peer-to-Peer Webinar: Success Stories in EIDM
Webinar 3 - Featuring:
Effective Psychological and Psychosocial Interventions to Prevent
Perinatal Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A Rapid Review and
Applicability Assessment
Becky Blair, John Barbaro, and Amy Faulkner
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Building a Best Practice Tool to Address the Needs of Clients with
Hepatitis C
Mary Guyton and Heidi Parker, Sherbourne Health Centre Site
November 15, 2017 1:00 – 2:30 PM ET
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Presenters
Becky Blair, RD, MSc
Simcoe Muskoka
District Health Unit
John Barbaro, MSc
Simcoe Muskoka
District Health Unit
Amy Faulkner, MISt
Simcoe Muskoka
District Health Unit
10. Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit’s
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Health Evidence Case Book Series
November 15th, 2017
EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND
PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS TO
PREVENT PERINATAL DEPRESSION AND
ANXIETY DISORDERS
11. OUTLINE
• Research Question Selection Process
• PICO & Search Strategy
• Study Selection & Quality Assessment Process
Description of Studies Included and Excluded
• Results
Characteristics of Included Systematic Reviews
Characteristics of Included Guidelines
Key Findings
• Applicability & Transferability
12. RESEARCH QUESTION
• Potential research questions were submitted by each health
unit department.
• Each question was scored (0-2) and ranked using pre-
established criteria and group consensus
• Top 3 choices were presented to Executive Committee for
endorsement.
• The top ranked question was the one selected for the Rapid
Review.
13. PICO
P (population) - pregnant or postpartum women at no known risk
or at risk of developing perinatal depression or an anxiety
disorder.
I (intervention) - any psychological or psychosocial intervention
C (comparison) - standard or usual care
O (outcome) - proportion of women diagnosed with perinatal
depression or an anxiety disorder
Lesson learned: The definitions document developed by the
EIDM team for the PICO was very helpful when screening studies
for inclusion / exclusion.
14. SEARCH STRATEGY
• The following databases were searched between January 20, 2016 - January
26, 2016:
Ovid MEDLINE(R) 1946 to January Week 1 2016
PsycINFO 2002 to January Week 2 2016
EMBASE 1996 to 2016 Week 3- limited to exclude Medline journals
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Medline in process searched on January 25, 2016
Lesson learned: Ensure time to discuss iterations of the search with
key members of the team, save search strategies, document decision-
making process
15. STUDY SELECTION & QUALITY ASSESSMENT
• At least two team members screened the initial list of titles and
abstracts and then reviewed full text articles for inclusion/exclusion as
required– disagreements were brought to the entire group for
consensus.
• Full text articles went on to the quality assessment stage.
• Only systematic reviews and guidelines were considered for quality
assessment and inclusion in the rapid review results.
• All systematic reviews and meta-analyses were assessed using the
AMSTAR quality assessment tool. The two guidelines were appraised
using the AGREE II tool.
Lesson learned: Make sure everyone is clear in how the outcome of
interest is defined and measured.
17. CHARACTERISTICS OF INCLUDED REVIEWS
Citation
(AMSTAR quality
assessment rating)
# studies with
outcome
(total # studies
in SR)
Study
designs
included in
systematic
review
Total
sample
size of
studies
with
outcome
Characteristics of
sample
Intervention
Type
(vs.
comparison/co
ntrol)
Outcome
Measure
Outcome
Dennis and
Dowswell9
(11)
5 (28) RCTs 458/481
Pregnant women
and new mothers,
both with and with-
out known risk.
psychological
and
psychosocial
(vs. TAU)
As variously defined
and measured by study
authors.
Diagnosis of
depression,
RR=0.50(0.32 to
0.78)
Pilkington et al.27
(2) 1/13
Matthey
(2004)28: 3 x3
RCT
Matthey
n=268
Couples expecting
first baby.
Australian sample.
Psycho-
education vs.
(non-specific
control) or TAU
Structured diagnostic
interview schedule-
DSM-IV
No effect on rates of
depression or
depression-anxiety
across conditions.
Sockol29
(5)
12 (40)
RCTs and
quasi-RCTs
3,149
Studies from
developed and
developing nations,
both antenatal and
postnatal.
CBT (vs. TAU,
active control, or
enhanced TAU)
Met criteria for
depressive episode.
No outcome definition
for prevention studies
provided.
OR= 0.71 (0.59-0.87)
Sockol30
(5)
23 (28)
RCTs and
quasi-RCTs
4,485
Studies from
developed and
developing nations,
both antenatal and
postnatal.
Biological and
psychosocial
intervention.
Various scales and
diagnostic criteria as
defined by primary
study authors,
including EDPS
Psychosocial
interventions:
OR = 0.61 (0.50, 0.84)
18. CHARACTERISTICS OF INCLUDED GUIDELINES
Citation (AGREE II
quality assessment
rating)
Evidence Description Recommendations
National Institute for
Health and Care
Excellence (NICE)1
(7/7)
Social support vs TAU - preventing depression diagnosis (at risk
women) – intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis 1 study:
->RR 0.85 (0.65 to 1.1) 117 participants, VERY LOW QUALITY
CBT/IPT informed psychoeducation vs. TAU - preventing depression
diagnosis (at risk women) – ITT analysis 3 studies:
->RR 0.69 (0.45 to 1.05) 360 participants. LOW QUALITY.
Depression diagnosis intermediate follow (up) (17-24 weeks post)
ITT analysis. 1 study:
->RR 0.77 (0.33 to 1.75) 45 participants, LOW QUALITY.
Mother-infant relationship interventions vs TAU - preventing
depression diagnosis post-treatment (at risk women) – intention-to-
treat (ITT) analysis 1 study:
->RR 1 (0.76 to 1.31) 449 participants, LOW QUALIT.
No studies were found that assessed change in diagnosis of
depression in populations without risk.
There are no recommendations
specific to preventative interventions
for depression or anxiety disorders
in the antenatal or postnatal period.
BC Reproductive Mental
Health & Perinatal
Services BC.10
(4/7)
Regarding prenatal depression, the guideline cites a guideline from
Scotland31. It identified that current evidence does not support
specific interventions for the prevention of depression in pregnancy
in those without identified risk factors.
Regarding post-partum depression, the guideline describes
promising practices for all postpartum related outcomes (not just
prevalence of diagnosed postpartum depression) from Dennis and
There are no recommendations
specific to preventative interventions
for depression or anxiety disorders
in the antenatal or postnatal period.
21. KEY FINDINGS
• Small evidence base for PICO question and majority of studies are of low
quality. Differing definitions and outcome measurements make comparing
results across studies difficult.
• Guidelines did not recommend the implementation of psychological or
psychosocial interventions for the prevention of perinatal mood disorders.
• The NICE guideline found no strong evidence that psychosocial and/or
psychological interventions are effective to prevent the diagnosis of
perinatal mood disorders in women.
• The Dennis Cochrane Review found a large (RR=0.5) beneficial effect of
combined psychosocial and psychological interventions to prevent the
diagnosis of postpartum depression compared to standard or routine care.
However, this finding was based on 5 studies, most of low quality.
Lesson learned: It is easy to accept the conclusions of a systematic review
authored by an expert in the field. However, critical appraisal is still
important. Always look at the data presented.
22. APPLICABILITY AND TRANSFERABILITY
• Group discussion with Program Managers, Executive
representatives, EIDM Team members facilitated by Donna.
• Applied the A&T tool in a 2 hour meeting – group consensus
that the Rapid Review scored low on the tool (i.e. little impact).
• Actionable message: “No evidence to support a change in
practice with respect to public health’s role in preventing the
diagnosis of perinatal mood disorders”.
• Next steps:
Include the A&T activity as an appendix in the final report
Identify all target audiences and craft key messages.
Explore additional research questions that were not addressed by this
review.
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Mary Guyton, RN, MEd
Sherbourne Health Centre Site
Heidi Parker, RN, MT
Sherbourne Health Centre Site
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Quality Improvement Project
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Address the Needs of Clients
with Hepatitis C
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4 of the other NCC’s support the use of research evidence in specific public health content areas
NCCMT and NCC Healthy Public Policy work across content areas
the focus of NCCMT improving access to, and use of, methods and tools that support moving research evidence into decisions related to public health practice, programs, and policyin Canada.
NCCMT offers a products and services to help apply research evidence in decision making
This presentation today is going to provide an overview of the Online Learning Opportunities that NCCMT offers.
Becky
Becky
Becky
Information is needed to make a major decision
Service area/program is able to provide consultation to EIDM team
Timely – decision is required ~6-8 months
Amount of evidence is adequate
Not broad topic, amenable to completion in ~6 months
Amy
Amy
The initial Medline search strategy was peer reviewed by two librarians.
The search strategies for the electronic databases contained select MeSH and free-text terms
Limited to search for randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses or guidelines.
Results were limited to articles published between 2013 and 2016 and were limited to English language
Authors of Cochrane reviews located in our initial search were contacted.
Amy
This process was cumbersome and time consuming even with six team members breaking the work down into manageable numbers. Sometimes the Title and abstract would not have enough information to tell us what type of study it was or if the contact was relevant to the PICO so you would have to pull up full text. Make sure that the Intervention and the population of interest is clearly defined prior to search. (developed world vs developing world) (Scale of depression measured) for applicability. Utilizing the tools helped to exclude reviews that would have been utilized as good research when it was not.
Amy
John
John
Guidelines had been based on low quality evidence. Recommendations within the guidelines were not provided for interventions that would prevent PPD. Evidence available for preventing depression within high risk populations but not for our specific PICO.
John
John
Becky
Becky
MARY- Read title
I’m Mary Guyton, a Hepatitis C treatment nurse at Sherbourne Health Center in East Toronto. I have a background in primary care and have now part of a Hepatitis C treatment team
Mary – read out
MARY – I’d like to first give you a brief background of our Hepatitis C Program. My work is through one of three sites for the Toronto Community Hepatitis C Program, a model that houses care within Community Health Centers and Family health teams. Our program started in approximately 2007. Our clients were facing barriers to hepatitis C care through specialists because of their alcohol and substance use- we didn’t feel this was right. Within a harm reduction framework and wrap around care including RNs, MDs, counseling and support staff our care is anchored in a group model. Heidi joined our team in fall of 2016 as a student for a 168 hours community health practicum through the University of Toronto RN program and was placed with Mary, the Hepatitis C Program Nurse. .
Motivated by the changing landscape in Hepatitis C toward more effective and better tolerated treatments and increased integration into primary care (Meyer, 2015) we were approached to provide RN specific primary care education to the nurses within Sherbourne Health to facilitative more comprehensive client care.
Heidi
In developing this support , Heidi identified a gap. While best practice resources exist for family physicians, there is a gap in resources tailored to RNs providing care to clients receiving Hepatitis C treatment.
Heidi
I started working on the project when Mary asked me to put together a brief overview of care for patients with Hepatitis C for the nurses working at Sherbourne. While it began as a small project, we expanded the goals of the project to include:
Exploring the education needs of the nurses in primary care caring for clients with Hepatitis C throughout their illness and post cure care
To develop a best practice resource tool as reference for nurses
To disseminate this resource to the primary care nursing community
FROM mary’s slides:
We sought to provide basic information with links/references to more thorough resources for clinical care primary care RNs will encounter (i.e. initial screening, treatment overview and post cure care/follow up). We considered several formats (i.e. paper reference vs. online tool, links to existing resources vs. creating our own
We developed and continue to develop this tool in consultation with members of the hepatitis C medical team, primary care nurses, community support workers and people with lived experience as well as the entire team of the Toronto Community Hep C program.
Heidi
To begin the project, I started with a literature review searching for documents for Primary Care Registered Nurses in Canada regarding care for Hepatitis C. I used both Google and PubMed databases and found many resources however they did not relate to primary care nurses in Canada.
I then compiled a number of resources for primary care physicians in Canada and Australia as well as some resources for nurses in Australia. These resources include:... After that, I consulted with Mary to discuss what sort of information would be important to include, I created the tool with relevant information for nurses in the Canadian Context and then we presented it to the nurses at Sherbourne to gain some valuable feedback. (including using links to keep information relevant).
In terms of evaluation we plan to use IHI’s Plan-Do-Study-Act tool. As of now we are finishing the “plan” phase as we finalize the tool and gain insight from key stakeholders as to what should be included. Moving forward as we share the tool with the nurses at Sherbourne and see if it improves their confidence in caring for clients with hepatitis C we will complete the do and study phases. Finally, after finalizing the tool, ensuring all improvements have been made, we will complete the “act” phase to disseminate the tool to other Primary Care RN’s.
How evidence was used to inform decisions
How did we seek feedback from primary care RNs
Sent out the draft tool via email
Presented it in weekly nursing rounds and received verbal feedback
Requested further email feedback (none yet received)
What did they tell us
Not too much information on the document - include links to the references so you can see basics and easily get to more in depth
Less interested in details not related to nursing??
How it looked for us to go through this process;
PLAN: reviewed our objections, our predictions were that the primary health care RNs would be interested in a document/educational support around HCV, supported by Mary previously working as a primary care RN and feeling this was a need at the time; Plan was also supported by the gap in literature/educational documents Heidi uncovered during her lit search; Plan for data collection?
DO/STUDY: met with RNs to understand what they would like, developed a document, sent document around for feedback? What feedback was received?- did we combine the do and study in this project? I kind of think we are a little in the study phase still with getting more feedback from key stakeholders and that the doing was the initial creation of the tool and initial feedback
ACT: currently stuck in the act phase- go over more details of this in the limitations section
MARY-
Our next steps are to solicit feedback by circulating the resource through our interprofessional team. We intend to review with our team pharmacist, MDs and infectious disease specialist, at a meeting of Hepaitis C treatment nurses and with our Patient Advisory Board to get rounded and comprehensive feedback.
We will then update our document and create a plan for knowledge transfer
From Mary’s slides
Acknowledge that next steps have stalled and lead into the lessons learned
Mary – I’d like to share the preceptor perspective. This was my first time working with a student on a Quality Improvement project and overall it was a very good experience. I think it is an important part of clinical practice placements if students are interested to encourage them to take on projects that have the potential for presentations and publications. I feel this is an important part of nursing education. To consider when embarking on this type of project especially if it involves stakeholder consolations is that it is likely beyond the scope of an 8-12 week semester and might be more appropriate for a consolidation project. At the very least it is an important consideration when planning a project like this that we did not plan for--This is why this QI project is yet to be completed.
From Mary’s slides: It can be challenging to continue with the project's momentum when student and preceptor no longer have the time and ongoing contact facilitated by a clinical placement.
Heidi- student perspective
From a student perspective, it can be intimidating to work on a “best practice” tool for experienced nurses. I think that the positive environment created by the nurses enabled me to feel confident to present what I had found in the research. As well, having this project to work on throughout the placement was beneficial as it ensured I had work to do during the down times of the program and gave me a sense of ownership and commitment to the program even after the placement was done.
From Mary’s Slides It was beneficial for the have a project to work on throughout the placement to feel accountable and responsible for one aspect of the program.
+ key messages
Mary – Here is a screen shot of the working version of our tool. We will believe after stakeholder consultations we will have more concreate changes to make, but some things we are considering are:
Do we create an online or paper resource?
We are leaning to an online tool for several reasons
We could like to resources that were routinely updated (i.e. information about medication) and make the document more of a living document and not something that is quickly outdate
It would give us the capability to have other types of resources (i.e. hyperlink to a map of areas where Hep C is endemic for screening considerations)
Heidi- Screening, transmission information, understand complexities of hep c testing, assessment and future care, patient education about healthy lifestyle
Mary- drawing on my background as primary care RN, wanting to include information about immunization, routine screening, social impact of stigmatized illness and treatment
Heidi- Presumably these are nurses are there things they would like to see
Mary -Also what do they see as best way to disseminate information?
Questions?