Knowledge transfer

Our interdisciplinary knowledge mobilization plan follows best practice guidelines and will deliver high quality evidence to multiple audiences. If effective, this plan has the potential to be included in the Government of Quebec’s digital mental health strategy in the short term.

Our 20 years of collaboration with the Center of Excellence for Early Childhood Development will enable effective execution of our knowledge mobilization. The plan was studied at three levels:

1. Contributors: The research questions and methodology were developed with our multidisciplinary team of knowledge users and researchers;
2. Participants: Participants in the pilot project were involved in adapting the knowledge mobilization plan;
3. Decision Makers: The project is supported by the Quebec Ministry of Health, the Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Department of Obstetrics at Sainte-Justine Hospital.

For our knowledge transfer, we target five types of audience:

1. The scientific community: We have a strong track record of publishing our research and timely special issues in peer-reviewed journals with a high impact factor, including World Psychiatry (impact factor (IF)=40) , JAMA Psychiatry (IF=17), JAMA Pediatrics (IF=14). We will ensure open access to data according to the “FAIR” principle: findable (Findable), Accessible, Interoperable, and reusable (reusable) with the aim of disseminating, encouraging, supporting and facilitating the use of the data that we will collect. We also plan to communicate our results to the scientific and academic community at conferences and colloquia that we will organize and prepare;
2. Professionals/Clinicians: Results will be presented as key messages (videos, audios, infographics) in professional association newsletters. We will target international networks (Association for Women’s Mental Health, Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health, Society for Research in Child Development, World Association for Infant Mental Health), national networks (Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative; Canadian Pediatric Association, Association of Perinatal and Women’s Health Nurses) and provincial (Association of Perinatal Physicians of Quebec, Network of Perinatal Resource Centers of Quebec; Provincial Congress of Mother-Child Research, Quebec Association for Infant Mental Health Midwifery Association of Quebec);
3. Service providers/policy makers: We will prepare briefing notes as well as policy briefs in which the results of our research and strategies for future directions to improve health and education services will be highlighted. We will also invite decision-makers to participate and attend our conferences, colloquiums and symposia;
4. General public: The results of our research will be disseminated widely via several social networks (in particular Facebook, Instagram, twitter and youtube). We will take advantage of our partnerships with several organizations such as the INSQ, the MEQ, the Center of Excellence for the Development of Young Children, the ISQ, the DRSP, the CIUSS of the center-south of the island by making the wide and effective dissemination of our knowledge as well as our strategies for future orientations via their social networks and websites. . We will use our close ties with the traditional media to also obtain a regular presence in newspapers, radio and television. Thus, we plan to do several interviews, dialogues and conferences;
5. Pregnant and postpartum women and partners: We will disseminate key messages on mental health and well-being in clinics, using flyers in infographic format; We will produce video summaries of key messages (approximately 120 seconds) for new and future parents.