The Delphi Process

Consensus-Building

1) Recruit panel members who are researchers, mental health clinicians, and community members

2) Initial guidelines will be sent to panel in survey format

3) The panel will rate the guidelines through the survey

4) The study team will revise the guidelines based on feedback from the panel

5) Steps 3 and 4 are repeated two more times

6) The final guidelines will be developed based on the panel feedback

Decision Matrix

We will use the matrix below to decide whether to include or discard guidelines as we move through the Delphi process.

*If a statement was re-rated in round 2 and again failed to achieve a consensus between 80-100% of each group, it will then be excluded.