Using shared goal setting to improve access and equity: a mixed methods study of the Good Goals intervention in children’s occupational therapy

Table 1 Characteristics, at baseline, of the therapists; the geographical locations and populations covered by the services; and the children on the services’ caseloads

			Service A	Service B	Service C
			n^¥= 25	n^¥= 17	n^¥= 5
Therapists’ characteristics	Band n(%)	4:	4 (16%)	0 (0%)	1 (20%)
		5:	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
		6:	5 (20%)	5^a (31%)	3 (60%)
		7:	15 (60%)	10 (63%)	0 (0%)
		8:	1 (4%)	1 (6%)	1 (20%)
	Years as therapist (Median[IQR])		13 (8-17)	15 (9-26)	7 (4-12)
	Years in paediatrics (Median[IQR])		8 (2-14)	7 (3-16)	6 (3-12)
Geographical and population characteristics	Miles required to travel to attend weekly Good Goals meetings with colleagues (mean[SD])^b		7.0 [8.7]	15.2 [13.6]	0
	Age of the children on caseload at baseline in years and months (mean [SD])		5y 7m	4y 5m	6y 4m
			[3yr 11m]	[3yr 4m]	[3yr 10m]
	% of area in most deprived 15% in Scotland [53]		13.3	4.8	29.4
Medical diagnoses of the children on caseloads (%)(ordered based on level of medical complexity from high to low)	Cerebral Palsy		23	41	18
	Other (e.g., global developmental delay, muscular dystrophy)		55	45	41
	Autistic spectrum disorder/ Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder/ Tourette’s syndrome		14	9	27
	Developmental coordination disorder/dyspraxia		2	7	0
	No medical diagnosis		20	16	29

^¥n here refers to number of therapists in the service (demographic and case note data was collected from all therapists in each service). ^a Data are missing for one senior therapist. ^b Travel distances calculated using Google maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/).