In this third step of the programme the social worker or psychologist contacts the patient by telephone and introduces PST.
Patients are contacted by one of the researchers (first author) at the beginning of this step to discuss their problems of depression and/or anxiety and give an explanation of this first step of the programme.
The output of this step was used as the input for the second step of the assembly process where OASES 0.2.28 [ 77] programme was applied.
Objectives for the maintenance programme were specified in the second step of the IM protocol [ 23].
That second step of the "Texas two-step"?
The parallel programme for parents during this third step of the intervention is similar.
In the third step of the MRC framework for developing a complex intervention, a 'Caring for Couples Coping with Cancer "4Cs" Programme' and education booklet were developed according to the P-LLCF proposed in the second step.
Our PE was partially based on "Awareness of Borderline Personality Disorder", the first step of STEPPS programme that had previously been demonstrated to improve clinical symptoms in BPD [ 27].
In the fourth step of IM, the maintenance programme was developed.
