This page contains a number of publicly available Dissemination Toolkits that are free to download and use. These toolkits contain guidelines, strategies, checklists, worksheets, templates, examples, and case studies for developing dissemination plans and products.
Developing a dissemination plan will help to facilitate the uptake and translation of research into practice. A robust dissemination plan will help you think about the process of disseminating research findings and requires identifying what will be disseminated, to whom, and through which channels, determining measures of success, and a comprehensive work plan.
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ACL NIDILRR Toolkit - The purpose of this Toolkit is to “tell the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) story,” including NIDILRR’s history, role, framework, work, publications, and resources in a summary format. It contains helpful information on dissemination.
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AHRQ – Advances in Patient Safety; Dissemination Planning Tool: Exhibit A from Vol. 4 – Developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, includes step-by-step guidance and tools for developing a dissemination plan.
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Beyond Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings (Yale CARE) – Provides guidance on developing a dissemination plan and key strategies for dissemination; Includes a dissemination planning worksheet and examples of dissemination products.
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Communicating Your Research – A Toolkit (The Health Foundation, UK) – Online module that provides step-by-step dissemination and communication planning, dissemination, and implementation; Includes dissemination planning templates and examples.
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Exchanging Knowledge: A Research Dissemination Toolkit (Univ. of Regina CRU) – Provides guidance on creating a dissemination plan including a dissemination plan worksheet and brief descriptions of some dissemination strategies.
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MRCT Center of BWH and Harvard Return of Aggregate Results to Participants – Includes Principles, Guidance Document, and Toolkit (see “Project Resources”). Toolkit includes hands-on tools for creating summaries for aggregate study findings; Includes helpful templates, checklists, and examples of plain language summaries.
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MRCT Center of BWH and Harvard Return of Individual Results to Participants – Includes Principles, Recommendations Document, and Toolkit (see “Deliverables”). Toolkit includes hands-on tools for returning individual study results to research participants; Includes dissemination planning figures for determining which individual findings should be returned and when, as well as planning tools and case studies.
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NASEM – Returning Individual Results to Research Participants: Full Book – Reviews the current evidence on the benefits, harms, and costs of returning individual research results, while considering the ethical, social, operational, and regulatory aspects of the practice. Recommendations document can be found here.
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PCORI Dissemination & Implementation Toolkit – Includes D&I best practices in dissemination guidelines and strategies, including worksheets for dissemination planning and study “spotlights” to provide users with real-world examples of dissemination planning.
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Toolkits for Developing Dissemination Products:
This section contains toolkits that assist with summarizing research findings and developing products to disseminate, such as a Plain Language Summaries, Policy Briefs, Reports, Infographics, and Press Releases.