The Experience Laboratory enabled participating stakeholders to articulate and agree on the benefits which the ASICA intervention could deliver to recipients.
The aim of our follow-up research was to evaluate whether a less ambitious, more streamlined (and potentially more sustainable and cost-effective), population-based, multi-factorial intervention could deliver comparable outcomes.
This difference enabled the study to evaluate whether a less ambitious, more streamlined (and potentially more sustainable and cost-effective), population-based, multi-factorial intervention could deliver comparable outcomes to the original, more intensively resourced study.
Research should also focus on developing effective lifestyle interventions that GPs could deliver briefly, for those times where GPs are able to dedicate a few minutes to lifestyle advice.
This work largely paints a familiar picture, albeit extending knowledge to countries such as Slovenia and Thailand: providers endorse the interventions and believe they could deliver them but do not have the support or opportunity to do so.
If the relationship between air pollution and cognitive function is causal, interventions to reduce exposure could deliver substantial health benefits given the relatively high global levels and ubiquitous nature of the exposure.
Enablers to delivering the intervention included a belief that they could deliver the intervention, a willingness to expand and share professional roles, procedures that reminded them what to do, and feeling good about helping people with stroke to participate.
Although we measured whether commissioners obtained the outcomes they expected, regardless of whether the intervention they invested in could deliver such an outcome, we did not consider the plausibility of these interventions impacting on the expected outcomes.
Arguably, a clinical nurse specialist could deliver such interventions following the requisite training.
