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Table 1 Process evaluation components and their definitions

From: Process evaluation of a participatory ergonomics programme to prevent low back pain and neck pain among workers

Component

Definition

Recruitment

- Number of intervention departments that agreed to participate

 

- Number of working groups formed

 

- Number of working group members recruited for additional ergocoach training

 

- Number of workers who responded to the baseline questionnaire

Reach

- Number of worksite visits by ergonomist

 

- Number of working group members who attended working group meeting

 

- Number of working group members who attended the Stay@Work ergocoach training

Fidelity

- The extent to which the steps of the PE programme were delivered as intended

Satisfaction

- Satisfaction of working group members towards the prioritised risk factors and ergonomic measures, the ergonomist's competences, and duration of the working group meeting

 

- Satisfaction of working group members who followed the Stay@Work ergocoach training towards the course leader's competences, and the duration of the training

 

- Satisfaction of workers at the department towards the perceived implemented ergonomic measures and towards the intervention method (PE) that was used to develop the ergonomic measures

Dose delivered

- Perceived implementation of the ergonomic measures according to the implementers

Dose received

- Perceived implementation of the prioritised ergonomic measures according to the workers at the departments

 

- Workplace implementation of the prioritised ergonomic measures according to the workers at the departments