| Cycle of Trust: Study Phase/Strategies | Survey Items* |
|---|---|
| Before the study | |
| Strategy 1: Trust with targeted partners | 1. Build relationships with community partner based on mutual trust 2. Build relationships with practice/clinic partners based on mutual trust |
| Strategy 2: Relevant topic and feasible study design | 3. Collaborate with community partners to determine research questions and protocols 4. Choose a feasible design that places minimal burden on the clinic and its workflow |
| Throughout the study | |
| Strategy 3: A competent research team | 5. Include practice/clinic partners in the research team to ensure understanding of the clinic context 6. Involve culturally and linguistically competent community partners on the research team (eg, bilingual/bicultural) and in the community, emphasizing familiarity with cultural norms along sex and class lines and other aspects of social identity |
| During the study | |
| Strategy 4: Tailored recruitment strategies | 7. Create recruitment strategies tailored to specific racial/ethnic community needs (eg, arranging transportation, accessing local media, addressing citizenship status concerns) |
| Strategy 5: Study implementation | 8. Identify a person with knowledge of the study to ensure that practice/clinic partners have a contact for study-related problems |
| Strategy 6: Tailored retention strategies | 9. Use appropriately timed personal contacts (eg, culturally appropriate thank you cards for participation) and/or token material incentives (eg, gift cards) to encourage participants to complete study activities |
| After study completion | |
| Strategy 7: Closing the loop and sowing the seeds of future research projects | 10. Customize reporting of study results to the interests of practice/community partners 11. Involve clinic/community partners in presenting research results to scientific and/or public audiences |
↵* Response options: For each activity, respondents were asked (a) how often they plan for the activity (never, rarely, sometimes, usually, or always); (b) how often they implement the activity in their research studies (never, rarely, sometimes, usually, or always); and (c) to assess the capacity of their practice-based research network to perform each activity (very low, low, medium, high, or very high).