Table 1 Key definitions and study eligibility criteria

Knowledge mobilisation and research use

Intentional strategies for increasing or improving:

• research or knowledge use or

• the uptake of explicitly evidence-based practices,

or studies of what influences decision making or practice changes (including the use of knowledge within routine organisational processes)

Third sector organisations

All organisations operating outside the formal state or public sphere that are not trading commercially for profit in the market.

(source: Third Sector Research Centre website ‘What is the third sector?’)

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/tsrc/about/index.aspx [accessed 22nd May 2014]

Third sector organisations carry out a range of functions, including providing services to the public directly (either funded by public sector organisations, or through charitable giving/grant funding), lobbying and campaigning on behalf of particular interest groups, supporting and networking other third sector organisations and building capacity (such as Local Infrastructure Organisations).

Include

Exclude

English Language

Research into knowledge mobilisation or research use in third sector organisations providing health and social care services, related to physical and/or mental health support and related functional wellbeing needs e.g. community children’s services, community services for older people and the frail elderly

Probation, criminal justice services, welfare payments and other needs-based financial support

Primary or secondary research (including systematic reviews), published in peer reviewed journals or grey literature