STEP V: DISSEMINATION PHASE

Communicating the findings

• Introduction: A research project cannot be considered complete

until its results are effectively communicated to its users and consumers.

Therefore communication of research findings is one of the essential and final step of research process.

The communication of research findings is communicated through either oral or written means.

Criteria for communicating the research

• Selecting proper channel for communication: the researcher has to select suitable and appropriate channel to disseminated his or her findings. Professional academicians generally publish their research articles through professional journals, books etc

• Knowing the consumer: the researcher must know in advance to whom they want to communicate their findings, such as nursing research findings to nurse educators, clinical nurses

• Developing an effective plan for writing a research report:

- Decide on authorship: the researchers have to decide among themselves as to who will be the leading author and the contributing author.

- Deciding on content: the resesrchers also have to decide how man papers are required to communicate the findings of research effectively.

- Preparing outline of report: it is important that if there are multiple researchers each one has responsibility for different section of manuscript.