Role of integrated knowledge translation in developing and implementing a multi-component infant feeding intervention: Insights from the CHErIsH study

Abstract

This article provides an overview and insights from the process of using integrated knowledge translation in developing and implementing the Choosing Healthy Eating for Infant Health (CHErIsH) intervention. Integrated knowledge translation involves collaboration between researchers and research users in the research process, including shaping the research questions, interpreting the results and helping to disseminate the research results (Graham and Tetroe, 2009). The central premise of integrated knowledge translation is that involving knowledge users as equal partners alongside researchers will lead to research that is more relevant to, and more likely to be useful to, the knowledge users (Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 2012)