Table 1 Intervention fidelity items

Data source

Fidelity DELIVERY items

Workshop attendance records

Number of workshops attended: 0–3

Continuity of representation at workshops (at least one team member attended more than one workshop): Y/N binary item

Interteam activities delivered to team at workshop 2 (more than one facility participated in their workshop): Y/N binary variable

Interteam activities delivered to team at workshop 3 (more than one facility participated in their workshop): Y/N binary variable

Fidelity RECEIPT items

Workshop 1 exit survey

Goal setting workshop content was relevant to my day-to-day work: 5-point agreement Likert scale

Goal setting worksheet

Expert assessment of whether team defined a challenging but attainable, specific, measurable goal: Y/N binary variable

Expert assessment of whether team defined strategies for goal attainment: Y/N binary variable

Expert assessment of whether team defined measures for tracking goal progress: Y/N binary variable

Fidelity ENACTMENT items

Workshop 1 exit survey

Completed preworkshop 1 exercise: Y/N binary variable

Workshop 2 observer rating

Team measured impact of changes designed to improve formal team communications: Y/N binary variable

Workshop 3 exit survey

Unit manager time spent planning INFORM activities: 1 ≤ 1 h/week, 2 = 1–2 h/week, 3 = 3+ h/week on average

Workshop facilitators (single-item enactment rating completed post workshop 3)

Overall fidelity enactment: 1–5; 1 = very low enactment, with no/almost no activities undertaken to improve care aide involvement in formal team communications about resident care; 5 = very high enactment, with extensive activities undertaken