Table 1 Process outcomes of the evaluation of the implementation process of the RSE programme

1) Adoption

Recruitment:

`Procedures used to approach centres and hospitals to participate in the RSE programme’.

Organization level:

I

- Strategy of inviting organizations to participate in the RSE programme

- Reasons of organizations for (not) participating in the programme

2) Implementation

Fidelity:

` The extent to which the RSE programme has been implemented as planned (the quality of the implementation)’.

Organization level:

Q, RS, I, FG

- Conformity to the implementation strategy (main components)

- Conformity to the RSE programme (main components)

Dose delivered

`The amount of the RSE programme that is delivered or performed by the professionals’.

Organization level:

Q, RS

- Amount of activities performed as part of the implementation strategy

- Amount of introductory sessions delivered

- Amount of sport and exercise activities as standard components of the rehabilitation treatment

- Amount of face-to-face sessions delivered by the counsellor

- Amount of counselling sessions delivered by the counsellor

- Amount of collaborations with exercise and sport facilitators (network)

Dose received

`The amount of the RSE programme that is received by the patients’.

Patient level:

Q, RS

- Number/percentage of patients who get acquainted with sport and exercise activities during rehabilitation treatment

- Number/percentage of patients who are referred to the SCC

- Number/percentage of patients who received a face-to-face consultation

- Number/percentage of patients who received counselling

- Number/percentage of patients who are referred to a sport and exercise activity in the region

Reach

`The extent to which professionals and persons with a physical disability and/or chronic disease are reached by the implementation of the RSE programme’.

Organization level:

Q, RS, FG

- Number of exercise and sport facilities that collaborate with participating organizations (network)

- Number/percentage of professionals participating in activities that are part of the implementation strategy

- Number/percentage of professionals participating in the RSE programme

Patient level:

- Number/percentage of patients participating in the RSE programme

Satisfaction

`Opinion about the RSE programme and the implementation strategy’.

Organization level:

Q, RS, FG

- Opinion about the implementation strategy by professionals

- Opinion about the content of the RSE programme by professionals

- Satisfaction about the implementation RSE programme within the organization

Patient level:

- Satisfaction/opinion about the RSE programme by patients

- Satisfaction about the sport and exercise facilities in the region by patients

3) Continuation

Maintenance

`The extent to which the RSE programme is integrated into the routines and into the organization’.

Organization level:

Q, I, FG

- The integration of the RSE programme into the standard rehabilitation treatment

- The integration of the RSE programme into the policy of the organization

4) Implementation determinants

Context

`Aspects of the environment that influence the implementation of the RSE programme or the RSE programme outcomes’.

Organization and patient level:

Q, RS, I, FG

- Characteristics of the social-political context

- Characteristics of the rehabilitation centre/hospital

- Characteristics of the professionals of the centre/hospitals

- Characteristics of the RSE programme

- Characteristics of the patients