The 'Hands up for Max!' educational intervention was well received by teachers and pupils and if results from the main trial show that the intervention is effective in reducing absenteeism, there will be grounds for introducing the intervention into more schools or making it part of the primary curriculum.
Indeed, one peer supporter developed a technique for introducing the intervention and the role he was being asked to play: at the start of each session, he would say 'I am just an ordinary person with diabetes, like you, who is here to help us all share experiences and information'.
In three of five prisons, the planned date for introducing each intervention (the 'step' of the stepped wedge) and the actual date at which training in using DBST took place did not match that indicated in the study design (Supplementary figure S2).
Since TB patients constitute a readily identifiable group in the health system for HIV-testing, they thus offer an opportunity for introducing HIV-related interventions including antiretroviral treatment (ART) [3].
These data would suggest that it may be unethical to predicate the decision for introducing new health interventions in most developing countries solely on government financial capacity if the consumers ultimately will pay for the services.
Normally under large scale MoHSW-run programs, community sensitization is not included, especially for introducing a new intervention into the EPI program.
MRC proposed a new procedure for introducing and evaluating complex clinical interventions including five phases: theory, modeling, exploratory trial, definitive randomised trial and long-term implementation.
The "Introduction of Solids" intervention focused on the timing of and effective approaches for introducing solid foods.
Thorough analysis of the implementation process is therefore called for when introducing new interventions [ 10].
This indicates that more detailed information and time for discussion could be valuable when introducing these interventions for the first time.
