23 Stage 0 intervention planning, development and training costs, stage 1 intervention preparation, stage 2 intervention delivery and stage 3 intervention maintenance costs were separately identified.
Five key themes emerged as enablers and/or barriers to delivering the intervention: preparation and training; initial and ongoing support; adherence to the protocol; the use of materials and equipment; and engagement of participants.
We will develop case report forms for the artist facilitators to complete with resources required to deliver the HoS intervention: preparation time, contact time and travel time, materials used, venue, numbers of participants attending the session and supervision required.
The researchers implementing the program will use standardised logs to prospectively record time spent, travel costs and other resources used in intervention preparation and delivery, student attendance for each session and any school-specific issues that arise in the delivery of each session (such as IT difficulties).
Because this program consumed a considerable amount of professional time (e.g., for intervention training, preparation, scheduling, and delivery, and for travel to and from the intervention delivery site), it was important to precisely estimate its true costs.
Other key interventions include preparation of national nutrition survey guidelines and tools and the training of 300 disaster management committee members on nutrition in emergencies.
Recommendations: 1. Design and implement a follow-on phase of the pilot project in order to consolidate the interventions in preparation for wider replication and scaling-up.
We attempted to minimize this by ensuring that the physiotherapists were trained and practiced the standardized interventions in preparation for the study.
A multi-dimensional assessment of physical functioning at baseline would allow early identification of patients at greatest risk of functional decline and thereby stratification for enrolment in exercise programmes or other interventions, in preparation for systemic anticancer treatment.
Resource use data were collected on the time taken by clinic nurses to deliver the intervention and collect clinical samples at the intervention visit (preparation time, duration of visit and other input) and, in the case of standard care, the time taken to collect clinical information.
