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. 2023 Feb 8;114(3):404–421. doi: 10.17269/s41997-023-00742-z

Table 2.

Dimensions of the data extraction tool

Dimension Subdimensions
Document characteristics

First author’s name, country, affiliation, year of publication

Format (peer-reviewed article, toolbox, manual, or report)

Approach (research-intervention approach, training tool with key messages, transversal approach with key messages, or theoretical approach)

Dissemination mode (bibliographic database, government, or organization website)

Document’s objective

Type of contribution to “how-tos” (more concrete (activities, checklists, steps to follow) or less concrete (general principles and prescriptions))

Intervention

Actor(s) who initiated the project

Objective of the intervention and targeted issue

Main content transferred by the intervention (knowledge, methods)

Type of health impact (directly or indirectly targeted)

Actors

Target population for the intervention

Partners involved in the project

Underlying conceptualization of key concepts

Sex/gender (intersectionality, when relevant)

Sex/gender inequity (e.g. dynamics related to S/G)

Partnership (e.g. participatory approach)

Reflexive practice

How-tos related to...

How-tos related to participatory research (ex. partnership implementation, knowledge mobilization including who should be partner in a project)

How-tos related to S/G integration (ex. methods to analyze S/G, to disseminate S/G results, or to integrate S/G into knowledge translation including in the partnership process)