Figure 4

Implications of KT for the logic model: a simple version. Figure 4 expands upon Figure 3 by introducing KT or knowledge translation into the outline of operations flowing through a research and development program (or its logic model). It shows a series of six text boxes placed next to each other and connected successively by forward arrows. Going from left to right, these boxes suggest an action chain involving six major components of the program as follows: the first box refers to input or the resources and funds received by the program. The second box refers to activities performed under the funded project, and the third box refers to the output or the immediate results of the program’s projects. This box then connects successively to fourth and fifth boxes that respectively refer to short-term and mid-term outcomes (from the disseminated results). An elongated box placed above these two boxes and connected to them suggests that the outcomes refer to the effects on or changes in the target audiences and the system. The flow of major boxes ends in the sixth text box at the far right which refers to the program goal or the longer term outcomes in the form of intended impacts. A second elongated box is placed below the three boxes of outcomes and refers to outcomes and impact evaluation; this refers to assessing and documenting benefits and risks from the program. The box connects to an oval box below that reads “Sponsor program database” suggesting it is a receptor of evaluation data. The occurrence of knowledge translation in the program operations is shown by placing “KT” adjacent to arrows between appropriate boxes; KT is seen to take place throughout, and is present everywhere except between activities and output.