# Protocol for a scoping review investigating success in research capacity building for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals

## TL;DR

This study aims to explore how success in research training for UK healthcare workers like nurses and midwives is defined.

## Contribution

It introduces a structured approach to understand success metrics in research capacity building for non-medical healthcare professionals.

## Key findings

- Success in research capacity building is often defined through increased research involvement of healthcare professionals.
- Current schemes focus on improving research engagement but lack a unified definition of success.
- The study will synthesize findings from peer-reviewed and grey literature to inform future interventions.

## Abstract

To identify and describe how success is currently conceptualised in research capacity building in nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in the UK.

Having a research active healthcare workforce is associated with improved patient outcomes as well as staff retention. It is therefore seen as a key target for many healthcare organisations. Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals form the largest group of healthcare professionals but are traditionally less involved in research than medically trained staff. A variety of schemes have aimed to address this through so called “research capacity building” activities but an understanding of what constitutes success is needed to aid development of future interventions.

Participants - Any or all of Nurses, Midwives or Allied Health Professionals.

Concept- Definition of success or description of aims of activities aimed at research capacity building.

Context- Within in the UK.

Content from peer reviewed journals will be searched for in: Embase, CINAHL, MEDLINE, AMED, BNI and EMCARE Web of Science Core Collection.

Grey Literature will be searched for in Google and Overton as well as key websites of organisations that work in developing research capacity. Website searches will include National Institute for Health and Care Research, all charities that form the Association of Medical Research Charities as of search date and the websites for the recognised professional bodies for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals.

Screening of titles and abstracts then full text will be undertaken by one person with 20% cross checked by a second reviewer. Data extraction will use a bespoke data extraction tool and will be undertaken by one person, with 20% cross checked with a second reviewer. A narrative synthesis and qualitative content analysis will be used to synthesise the data.

OSF Registries: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/QVCDX