Intervention implementation questions used to guide the documentation of intervention implementation | Data sources | ||||
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SPIRIT team: engagement and design | SPIRIT team: implementation | Intervention session observations | Participant feedback | Participant interviews | |
Intervention design | |||||
1. What was the planned number & length of intervention sessions/activities, and their distribution and duration over time? Who were the targeted participants? | ✓ | ||||
2. What theoretical model/theory-of-change were the strategies based on? | ✓ | ||||
3. What essential elements were to be delivered in each component? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Intervention providers | |||||
4. What selection process was used to identify providers? What were the credentials of providers? | ✓ | ||||
5. What training, guidance or information did providers receive (what was the content and format, and were there any changes over time?)? | ✓ | ||||
Recruitment | |||||
6. How were agencies recruited as participants? | ✓ | ||||
7. What was the nature of the relationship between these agencies and the researchers/institutions involved in the trial?* | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Tailoring | |||||
8. Which intervention components did agency leaders select? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
9. What reasons did they give for that selection (what goals were they targeting)? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
10. What, if any, other goals and strategies were nominated by the agency leaders for supporting research use? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Intervention delivery | |||||
11. What method was used to specify and direct implementation? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
12. How long was each session? | ✓ | ||||
13. What was the type, number and distribution of intervention sessions/activities? | ✓ | ||||
14. To what extent were the essential elements delivered? How were they monitored/measured? | ✓ | ||||
15. Were there any planned changes made to R4P while it was in progress? Why? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
16. Were there any unplanned changes? What happened? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Context | |||||
17. What was the culture and overarching context of the participating agencies at the start of the intervention?* | ✓ | ✓ | |||
18. Were there any changes/initiatives during the intervention that may have affected responses to the intervention?* | ✓ | ✓ | |||
19. What were the immediate contextual conditions around intervention sessions? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Participation | |||||
20. Who was invited to participate? (numbers and professional roles)? | ✓ | ✓ | |||
21. How many potential participants attended sessions? Who were they? | ✓ | ||||
22. What proportion of targeted participants attended (approximately)? | ✓ | ||||
23. Did key people (agency leaders or topic specialists) attend? | ✓ | ||||
Responses to intervention sessions | |||||
24. How did people participate in intervention sessions? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
25. How satisfied were participants with sessions and SPIRIT overall?* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
26. Did participants identify or anticipate any changes in using research in response to intervention sessions/activities?* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Intervention improvements | Analysis of data above | ||||
27. What improvements to the intervention design and/or implementation are suggested by this data?* | |||||
28. What lessons might be relevant to other interventions and settings?* |