The survey found 78% of advisors have increased the amount of proactive contact they have with their clients.
Duration of exposure is maximised through expanded content and proactive contact.
We uncovered several domains on which cancer survivors have needs in general practice: medical, psychosocial, informational and proactive contact.
The themes that were identified involved medical, psychosocial and informational needs, need for proactive contact and a group called other.
Given the evidence of the adverse impact of caring, proactive contact with carers early on might reduce difficulties later.
We will assist participating centers by means of manuals, ICT assistance, and proactive contact after report generation to check for any content related questions or user feedback.
We have developed a Facebook 'app' that allows us to enable or disable various components designed to impact the duration of use (expanded content, proactive contact), contagiousness (active and passive sharing) and number of contacts (use by non-smoker supporters).
We empirically constructed domains of online intervention elements that we believed could impact each variable with minimal overlap: information content and proactive contact (t, duration of use), social communications (β, contagiousness) and non-smoker integration (z, number of contacts).
Proactive contact is implemented by encouraging users to come back to the app through a reminder that appears within the Facebook interface whether the user is using the application or not.
We hypothesise that intervention variants containing greater information content, ongoing proactive contact and active communication strategies will outperform control application variants and have higher Rs, and that their combination will be synergistic and will display positive interaction effects.
