Table 2 Internal consistency and pattern response

Push - What is "transferred" to target audiences outside the scholarly community (e.g., journal articles, systematic reviews, and messages that specified possible action)

Push - To whom is research being transferred and with what investments in fine-tuning the approach to them (e.g., tailored the content of mailings or e-mails to specific target audiences)

Push - By whom is research being transferred and with what investments in supporting their efforts (e.g., identified and worked with credible messengers)

Push - How is research knowledge being transferred to particular target audiences, and specifically using what "passive" strategies (e.g., mailed or emailed brief summaries or messages without an explicit request)

Push - How is research knowledge being transferred to particular target audiences, and specifically using interactions related to the research process (e.g., interacted when developing a specific research question, objectives or hypothesis)

Push - How is research knowledge being transferred to particular audiences, and specifically using interactions outside the research process (e.g., interacted through events organized by them or their organization or through informal conversations)

Push - With what efforts to evaluate their KTE activities (e.g., assessed any changes in their target audiences actual -- i.e., objectively measured -- behaviour that may be attributable to their KTE activities)

Facilitating "user pull" - What passive strategies have been used to facilitate user pull (e.g., provided access to a searchable database of articles, reports, syntheses or reviews on the topic)

Facilitating "user pull" - What active strategies have been used to facilitate user pull (e.g., developed capacity of target audiences to acquire research on the topic through searchable databases)

Exchange - What exchange efforts are undertaken (e.g., established or maintained long-term partnerships related to the topic with target audience representatives, involved target audience representatives in establishing the overall direction of their or their organization's research on the topic)