The Active Choices program was developed to assist peer mentors and volunteers to implement telephone-supervised programs focused on increasing physical activity to improve cardiovascular health for inactive or under-active older adults.
However, limited evidence exists of the challenges GP practices face in implementing telephone triage.
Hence, patient education on follow-up will need special attention in future trials or when implementing telephone follow-up.
However, the findings reported here are of the challenges of implementing telephone triage from within the context of a trial, and from the perspective of NHS staff.
The findings from the process evaluation offer insight into the range of ways GP practices participating in ESTEEM implemented telephone triage, and the circumstances under which telephone triage can be successfully implemented beyond the context of a clinical trial.
Therefore, if carefully designed and implemented, telephone-based peer support might be a satisfactory choice for diabetes management and should be introduced on a large scale.
Information about the longer-term outcomes that follow a decision to implement the Telephone Counselling program is useful for decision makers and health planners.
We will implement a telephone-administered intervention based on motivational interviewing (MI) augmented with information and behavioural skills building (informed by the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model).
The Federal Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs DIMAA) has implemented a telephone line so that we can dob the scum in.
"Kenny Hahn is going to keep speaking out on the issues and think of new ideas until he has no more breath". Among his pet ideas that have been implemented are telephone call boxes on local freeways, the county's paramedic system and Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.
Three rounds of screening were implemented (email, telephone, in-person interview) to assess whether participants met the following criteria: (1) experienced chills consistently to a piece of instrumental music, and (2) chills were pleasurable (i.e., not experienced because the individual was cold, surprised, or frightened) and did not diminish greatly with multiple listening.
