If the adolescent is not contactable, facilitators continue to attempt to contact the adolescent in line with the developed protocol.
Continuous contact between facilitators and course leaders is also important and regular facilitator meetings should be held.
8 Behavioural change strategies were included in the interventions, but there was no face to face contact with facilitators or interaction between participants.
Excluding the outlier of ten years, the average time from the discovery of the possibility of going abroad for surgery to contacting a facilitator or destination hospital with the intent to book a trip was six months (median = 3 months).
This information together with the number of facilitator contacts and total contact time received, will allow characterisation of individual patient engagement in the intervention.
This appears to create a dilemma, in that HCP regard early contact as a facilitator of good collaboration, whereas waiting until a crisis emerges appears to be a further barrier to good collaboration.
At the kitchen production level prospects benefit from a facilitator contact between care and kitchen staff, and if the kitchen staff controls the whole food path from the kitchen to the patient.
For example, in the past I contacted our healthcare facilitator to receive advice in regard to healthy lifestyle options for a young man with autism and a severe learning disability with challenging behaviour.
Prior to the first visit, the facilitator contacted the practice regarding the choice of topics to be discussed.
When the reports raised a concern, the facilitator would contact the mentor to discuss and provide feedback.
The facilitator will contact the participant with further instructions on group participation.
