Table 1

Description of data extraction items

Items	Description
Dates	Publication dates
Study design	Quantitative Qualitative Mixed methods Policy and practice
Health topics	Health topics (ie, cancer, HIV, suicide, food insecurity, tuberculosis) or social–economic, cultural determinants (housing, social and economic status, cultural continuity) about health issues
Study population/sample size	Adults, children, adolescents, newborns Proportion or number of participants included in studies
Sampling techniques	Qualitative sampling techniques: purposive, snowball, convenience Quantitative sampling techniques: random, stratified, census
Geographical localisation	Inuit Canada/Inuit Nunangat/Nunavik/Nunatsiavut/Inuvialuit/Nunavut/NunatuKavut
Self-identified as participatory research	Self-identified as participatory research, community-based research, action research, participatory community-based research
Justification	How do authors justify their research?
Framing issue	How do authors conceptualise the issue under study?
Partnerships	Any information available on partnerships Who was involved and how?
Governance	Any information available on how the decision-making process took place, who was involved and what decisions were made regarding any research process and steps
Design instrument	How were instruments designed (standardised/adapted/not adapted)? Who participated in the instrument development?
Data collection	Qualitative research: interviews, focus group discussion, observation, document analysis Quantitative research: survey, anthropometric and laboratory measurement Who collected the data and how?
Data analysis	Qualitative: thematic analysis, content analysis, comparative content analysis Quantitative: descriptive and analytical statistics (ie, univariate, multiregression) Who participated in the analysis, and how was data analysis done?
Intervention	Any information available on preventive/promotion/curative interventions How were interviews designed, implemented and evaluated? Who participated in the design, implementation and evaluation of the intervention?
Dissemination	Any information available on the dissemination of the finding’s study Who participated in and how this stage occurred?
Data ownership	Any information available about data ownership (control, management, data possession) Who owned the data, and how it was done?
Capacity-building	Any information available about capacity-building Who was trained? What training was organised and how?
Sustainability/scale-up	Any information available on sustainability and scale-up of knowledge translation (ie, prevention/promotion/curative interventions, training)
Ethics	Who provided ethical approval to studies? What items authors described in the ethical section?
Funding sources	Who funded the studies?