Table 3.

Overview of changes to domains, key terms and definitions from the Delphi process (R1-R2, R5)

Domain/key terms	Original	Revised
Organizational support for research	Interest in strengthening research capacity	Commitment to research capacity (interests, motivations, attitudes)
	Infrastructure (space, time, technology)	Infrastructure (space, time, staff, technology)
Practical research experiences	Implementing research into practice	Using research in practice
	Finding/adopting model programs or best practices	To be determined
	New subdomain addition	Conducting community assessments
Research specific experiences	Asking research questions and using research	Asking research questions and using research questions to collect primary data
Funding (FUN)	New subdomain addition	Negotiating budgets
Researchers	Any individual person or organization who worked with your organization on a specific research project, such as a program evaluation, a community needs assessment, or another research project. Researchers can be affiliated with a university, a private organization, or a non-profit.	Individuals trained through formal or informal means in designing studies, collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data, and applying results. Researchers can be affiliated with an academic institution, a private organization, a non-profit, or an independent consultant.
Research into practice	Using primary and secondary data to inform your work.	Research findings used to identify promising or evidence-based policies, programs or services to improve the health and well-being of the community.
Dissemination	Sharing research findings from primary or secondary data analyses.	Sharing research findings with stakeholders such as: funders, partners, policy-makers, publications and community members in order to drive responsive changes such as: behavioral, policy and funding.
Research ethics	Protecting the confidentiality and rights of your community members or clients while using their information for research purposes.	Conducting research that protects the confidentiality and rights of participants and is respectful of participants and their communities’ cultural beliefs and practices.
New terms
Research partnerships	An equitable relationship formed for the purpose of conducting research between a community-based organization and/or community members and another agency such as: an academic institution, a private organization, or a non-profit.
Institutional Review Board (IRB)	A committee that reviews research involving human beings to ensure that the rights and welfare of humans are protected. IRBs are in place to ensure that human research follows federal, institutional and ethical guidelines.
Community-based participatory research	A definition proposed by Minkler and Wallerstein (2003): CBPR is a collaborative approach to research, [CBPR] equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge and action for social change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities
Community-defined evidence	Adapted definition from Martínez, K.J., Callejas, L., & Hernandez, M. (2010), “A set of practices that communities have used and determined by community consensus over time to yield positive results and…have reached a level of acceptance by the community.”