My names is Naomi Weier, and as part of my PhD studies I am conducting research investigating antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) training programmes available to health professionals around the world. Your course has been identified by health professionals as an AMS training programme that is available to them. As part of this research, we are conducting a survey of those involved in developing, coordinating, and/or delivering an AMS training programme to health professionals on aspects of the training programme that is offered. My supervisors are Dr Tabish Zaidi and Dr Rahul Patel from the School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Australia, and we are conducting this research in conjunction with: Prof Céline Pulcini from the University of Lorraine, France; Prof Karin Thursky from The University of Melbourne and Doherty Institute, Australia; Dr Thomas Grenholm Tängdén from Uppsala University, Sweden; Prof Dilip Nathwani from Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, United Kingdom; Dr Vera Vlahović from University of Rijeka, Croatia; Dr Oliver Dyar from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden; Assoc Prof Bojana Beović from University Medical Centre Ljubljana and University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Prof Gabriel Levy Hara from Durand Hospital, Argentina.
This research aims to identify features of training programmes in AMS currently available to health professionals, ease of access to these training programmes, and whether training opportunities differ between health professions. A result of this research will be the development of an inventory of AMS training programmes that are currently available to health professionals around the world. The survey will take approximately 10 minutes to complete, and responses are completely anonymous. It is available through the following web link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PD8N3RW
Alternatively, if you would like to have a copy of the survey posted to you to complete, please contact myself or Dr Tabish Zaidi using the email addresses below, and provide details of your preferred postal address. A copy of the survey will then be posted with a postage-paid return address envelope.
The results of this research will be published, and an inventory of AMS training programmes available to health professionals will be developed after this study is completed. If you would like a copy of the results and/or the inventory of AMS training programmes, please contact either myself or Dr Tabish Zaidi through the email addresses below and we will inform you when the results are available.
This study has been approved by the Tasmanian Social Sciences Human Research Ethics Committee. If you have concerns or complaints about the conduct of this study, please contact the Executive Officer of the HREC (Tasmania) Network on +61 3 6226 6254 or email human.ethics@utas.edu.au. The Executive Officer is the person nominated to receive complaints from research participants. Please quote ethics reference number H0017158.
If you have any questions about this research study please do not hesitate to contact either myself through email: neweier@utas.edu.au or Dr Tabish Zaidi through: Tabish.RaziZaidi@utas.edu.au.
If you would like to complete this survey, please use the web link above or contact us to obtain a hard copy of the survey. Consent is implied by accessing the survey. You may opt out at any time.
Thank you for your time, and I look forward to seeing the responses.