Process factors explaining the ineffectiveness of a multidisciplinary fall prevention programme: A process evaluation

Table 1 Outcome measures and measurement instruments of the process evaluation

	Events in chronological order →
	R	Q	FI	L	T	PD
Performance of programme according to protocol
▪ Deviations from protocol	X		X			X
▪ Timing and duration of the assessments	X	X	X			X
Nature of recommendations and referrals from assessments				X
Participants' compliance with referrals and recommendations
▪ Self-reported compliance with contacting GP					X
▪ Self-reported compliance with referrals and recommendations resulting from the medical assessment					X
▪ Self-reported compliance with recommendations resulting from the occupational-therapy assessment					X
Opinion about the programme
▪ Benefit and satisfaction experienced by the participants		X			X
▪ Practicability of the recording forms			X
▪ Acceptability of the programme to participants			X
▪ Recommendations (for implementation)			X			X

R = Structured recording forms for the practitioners regarding the medical and occupational-therapy assessments; Q = Self-administered questionnaires for all participants who underwent the medical assessment; FI = Structured individual face-to-face interviews with the practitioners; L = Letters written by the geriatrician and occupational therapists to GPs, listing recommendations and/or referrals; T = Structured interviews by telephone with the participants who underwent the medical and/or the occupational-therapy assessment, about 6 months after the recommendations ensuing from the assessment(s) had been sent to the GP; PD = Plenary group discussion with the practitioners and the research team.

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