Table 5 Skills competencies about research in general

Skills - Research in general

Communication skills*/sharing knowledge/communicating research findings/success in research dissemination to appropriate audiences

Educational skills*

Academic skills *

Program evaluation skills*

Management skills*/research conduct and/or management strategies

Research methodology skills*

Data management, analysis, and visualization; SPSS

Knowledge synthesis

Use of research fundings (or research use)

Develop research methods and measures

Experience in handling different data source and routine data

Experience in planning a research study/end-of-grant KT

Ability to develop an evaluation plan

Knowledge of criteria for scientific integrity and fidelity

Project organization

Oral presentations for an academic audience

Literature search/Identify relevant theory, evidence, methods, and perspectives outside the clinical domain of the research program/Summary/review of research literature; analysis and synthesis of results

Ability to write an academic report

Ability to write grants and publications among translational researchers, ability to write manuscripts in general

New, marketable discoveries

Ability to write IRB protocols

Skills - Intervention design

Integrate diverse disciplinary, stakeholder and community perspectives into a cogent intervention design and/or implementation and dissemination strategy

Utilize a comprehensive implementation framework to guide the integration of theory with specific intervention, evaluation, and dissemination activities

Developing an intervention

Self-efficacy: Have belief in one’s own capabilities/a sense of self-sufficiency in implementing the intervention.

Individual stage of change: Be prepared to implement eachphase of the intervention on one’s own knowledge/persuasion/decision/ execution/confirmation)

Develop a logic model for designing evidence-based, theory-driven program