Research Agenda Project (RAP):
Setting a global violence prevention research
agenda on behalf of VPA
Masako Tanaka, Ph.D. McMaster University
on behalf of the RAP group
Cape town, South Africa
September 6-7 2011
Aim
• To establish a global violence
prevention research agenda on behalf
of VPA
– Next 5 years
– Focus on interpersonal violence (6 types)
– Low-, middle-, and high-income countries
Methods:
Delphi consensus development
• Step 1: Generate research questions
• Step 2: Compile items and create survey
• Step 3: Identify survey respondents
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Administer the online survey
Score items
Develop the second survey
Summarize results for publication
Methods - Step 1
Generate research questions
• Participants (RAP group and their associates):
Total 97
– From LMICs (17): n=23
– From HICs (14): n=74
• List of research questions
– For LMICs: 108 items
– For HICs: 50 items
Methods – Step 2
Compile items and create survey
• Approach to compile items:
– Combined all economic levels
– Grouped lower-concept items together
– Public health approach to group items
– Survey is created for each abuse type
– Cross-cutting area relevant to all types
Methods – Step 2
Compile items and create survey
• Survey structure:
• Section 1:
• Demographics
• Choose income levels (LMICs, HICs, or all)
• Choose type of abuse
• Section 2: for selected abuse types:
• Rank the priority among 4 public health steps
• Then rank items in order of priority within each step
• Section 3:
• Cross-cutting areas (methodology, knowledge
translation, law)
Methods – Step 3
Survey respondents identified by RAP
Break-down of respondents by economic level and
region, n=548 from 84 countries (30% from LMICs)
2%
HIC Asia
9%
1%
HIC North America
4%
HIC Australia
HIC Europe
8%
36%
10%
HIC Other
LMIC Asia
1%
LMIC Africa
25%
4%
LMIC North America
LMIC South America
LMIC Europe
Questions
• Identify the survey respondents
– Should we increase respondents from LMICs? OR
reduce respondents from HICs?
• Can we ask respondents to forward a link to the survey
to their colleagues (from LMICs)?
– Should we distribute the survey to relevant
organizations such as UN women?
– Should we make the survey available for general
public to respond?
– Should we seek feedback from general public
about the results of the survey?
Next steps and time line
• Administer online survey in mid
September 2011, for 2 weeks
• Analyze results
• Send second survey
• Prepare draft publication (summarizing
Delphi process and results )
• Prepare draft publication (Document
suitable for general public summarizing
research priorities)