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Table 2 Characteristics of included studies (n = 48 studies, 1 companion report)

From: Tools for assessing health research partnership outcomes and impacts: a systematic review

First author, year

Origin

Study design (methods)

Explicit conceptual foundation?

STUDY measures outcomes, impacts?

Contributions

Develop or modify tool

Use or evaluate tool

Validatea tool

Butterfoss, 1996

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Kegler, 1998

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

·

Chan, 2000

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Shortell, 2002

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Weiss, 2002

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B, G

O

✓

✓

✓

El Ansari, 2004

Europe (United Kingdom) Africa (South Africa)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

El Ansari, 2004

Europe (United Kingdom) Africa (South Africa)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

·

Metzger, 2005

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B, G

O

✓

✓

✓

Kegler, 2005

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Cramer, 2006

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Feinberg, 2008

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

·

✓

✓

Feinberg, 2008b

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

·

·

✓

Orr Brawer, 2008

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B, G

O, I

✓

✓

✓

King, 2009

North America (Canada)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

I

✓

✓

✓

Tolma, 2009

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

·

Wagemakers, 2010

Europe (Netherlands)

Multiple-case study (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

King, 2010

North America (Canada)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

·

✓

·

Ziff, 2010

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

·

✓

✓

Jones, 2011

Europe (Ireland)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Jones, 2011b

Europe (Ireland)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Perkins, 2011

North America (USA)

Nested longitudinal study (MM)

B

O, I

·

✓

✓

Bilodeau (2008, 2019b

North America (Canada)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Curro, 2012

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

·

O, I

✓

✓

✓

El Ansari, 2012

Europe (United Kingdom) Africa (South Africa)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O

✓

·

✓

Brown, 2012

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

·

✓

Nargiso, 2013

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

·

O

✓

✓

✓

Perkins, 2014

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Chang, 2014

Australasia (Taiwan)

Post-test study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Brown, 2015

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

·

✓

✓

Bornstein, 2015

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

I

·

✓

·

Oetzel, 2015

North America (USA)

Nested cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Oetzel, 2015b

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

·

·

✓

Stocks, 2015

Europe (United Kingdom)

Pre-post study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Brown, 2016

North America (Mexico, USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

·

✓

✓

Goodman, 2017

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Okazaki, 2017

North America (USA)

Case study (MM)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Jones, 2018

Europe (Ireland)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

West, 2018

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

G

O

✓

✓

✓

Oetzel, 2018

North America (USA)

Multiple-case study (MM)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Duran, 2019

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B

O, I

·

✓

✓

Soobiah, 2019

North America (Canada)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Dickson, 2020

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

Rodriguez Espinosa, 2020

North America (USA)

Mixed methods (MM)

B, G

O

✓

✓

✓

Lucero, 2020

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O

✓

✓

✓

van Schelven, 2021

Europe (Netherlands)

Mixed methods (Qn)

·

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Hamilton, 2021

North America (Canada)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Boursaw, 2021

North America (USA)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

Loban, 2021

North America (Canada) Australasia (Australia)

Cross-sectional study (Qn)

B

O, I

✓

✓

✓

  1. (B) informed by conceptual theory, model, framework; (G) generated conceptual theory, model, framework; (·) conceptual underpinnings not explicitly identified
  2. Qu qualitative study, Qn quantitative study, MM mixed-methods study, O outcomes, I impacts
  3. aEmpirical validation
  4. bCompanion report