Table 1.

The CREATE Tool items [15] (p. 8) mapped to the Research for Impact Tool steps [14] (p. 8).

Research for Impact Tool Steps	CREATE Tool Items
1. Define the users and critically assess their evidence needs	1. Did the research respond to a need or priority determined by the community?
2. Appraise the existing evidence
3. Select and implement an appropriate research type and design	9. Was the research guided by an Indigenous research paradigm? 10. Does the research take a strengths-based approach, acknowledging and moving beyond practices that have harmed Aboriginal and Torres Strait peoples in the past?
4. Assess the project level benefits and costs 6. Assess the benefits beyond the project versus costs	12. Did the research benefit the participants and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?
5. Translate the new knowledge to influence decisions and actions beyond the project	11. Did the researchers plan to and translate the findings into sustainable changes in policy and/or practice?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership, economic evaluation and knowledge translation expertise, partnership, learning by doing, and capacity enhancement within each step	2. Was community consultation and engagement appropriately inclusive? 3. Did the research have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research leadership? 4. Did the research have Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander governance? 5. Were local community protocols respected and followed? 6. Did the researchers negotiate agreements in regards to rights of access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ existing intellectual and cultural property? 7. Did the researchers negotiate agreements to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ ownership of intellectual and cultural property created through the research? 8. Did Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities have control over the collection and management of research materials? 13. Did the research demonstrate capacity strengthening for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals? 14. Did everyone involved in the research have opportunities to learn from each other?