BACKGROUND Integrated knowledge translation refers to researcher and research user partnerships to co-generate and implement knowledge. This type of partnership may be critical to success in increasing knowledge use and impact, but the conceptualisation of its initiation has not been fully developed. Initiating this type of partnership has proven to be challenging but crucial to its success. The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-narrative review of partnership initiation concepts, processes, enablers, barriers and outcomes in the disciplines of healthcare and social sciences where examples of researcher and research user partnerships were found. METHODS Seven research traditions were identified. Three were in the discipline of social sciences (including psychology, education and business) and five were in the discipline of healthcare (including medicine, nursing, public health, health services research). Searches were conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ABI Inform, ERIC, PsychInfo and the Cochrane Library on June 9, 2017. Fifty titles and abstracts were screened in triplicate; data were extracted from three records in duplicate. Narratives comprised of study characteristics and conceptual and empirical findings across traditions were tabulated, summarised and compared. RESULTS A total of 7779 unique results were identified and 17 reviews published from 1998 to 2017 were eligible. All reviews identified a partnership initiation phase referred to as 'early' or 'developmental', or more vaguely as 'fuzzy', across six traditions - integrated knowledge translation, action research, stakeholder engagement, knowledge transfer, team initiation and shared mental models. The partnership initiation processes, enablers, barriers and outcomes were common to multiple narratives and summarised in a Partnership Initiation Conceptual Framework. Our review revealed limited use or generation of theory in most included reviews, and little empirical evidence testing the links between partnership initiation processes, enablers or barriers, and outcomes for the purpose of describing successful researcher and research user partnership initiation. CONCLUSIONS Narratives across multiple research traditions revealed similar integrated knowledge translation initiation processes, enablers, barriers and outcomes, which were captured in a conceptual framework that can be employed by researchers and research users to study and launch partnerships. While partnership initiation was recognised, it remains vaguely conceptualised despite lengthy research in several fields of study. Ongoing research of partnership initiation is needed to identify or generate relevant theory, and to empirically establish outcomes and the determinants of those outcomes.

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概念化研究人员和研究用户合作关系的发起：一项元叙事评论。

背景技术集成知识翻译是指研究人员和研究用户的合作关系，以共同产生和实施知识。这种伙伴关系对于成功增加知识的使用和影响可能至关重要，但是这种伙伴关系的启动概念尚未得到充分发展。事实证明，建立这种伙伴关系具有挑战性，但对于其成功至关重要。这项研究的目的是对医疗保健和社会科学学科中的伙伴关系启动概念，过程，促成因素，障碍和结果进行元叙述性审查，其中发现了研究人员和研究用户伙伴关系的实例。方法确定了七个研究传统。社会科学学科（包括心理学，教育和商业），其中五个属于卫生保健学科（包括医学，护理，公共卫生，卫生服务研究）。搜索于MEDLINE，EMBASE，CINAHL，ABI Inform，ERIC，PsychInfo和Cochrane图书馆于2017年6月9日进行。一式三份地筛选了五十种标题和摘要。从三个记录中重复提取数据。叙述包括研究特征以及跨传统的概念和实证研究结果，并加以汇总，比较和比较。结果总共鉴定了7779项独特结果，并且从1998年至2017年发表了17篇评论。所有评论都确定了六种传统的伙伴关系启动阶段，称为“早期”或“发展”阶段，或更模糊地称为“模糊”阶段-集成知识翻译，行动研究，利益相关者的参与，知识转移，团队启动和共享的心理模型。伙伴关系启动过程，促成因素，障碍和结果是多种叙述所共有的，并在伙伴关系启动概念框架中进行了总结。我们的评论显示，在大多数被纳入的评论中，理论的使用或生成是有限的，并且很少有经验证据测试伙伴关系启动过程，促成因素或障碍与结果之间的联系，以描述成功的研究人员和研究用户的伙伴关系启动。结论跨多种研究传统的叙述揭示了类似的集成知识翻译起始过程，促成因素，障碍和成果，这些都被收集在一个概念框架中，研究人员和研究用户可以用来研究和建立合作伙伴关系。尽管认识到建立伙伴关系，但尽管在几个研究领域进行了长期的研究，但仍模糊地将其概念化。需要进行持续的伙伴关系发起研究，以识别或产生相关理论，并凭经验确定结果和这些结果的决定因素。