Component | Definition | How assessed in evaluation |
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Recruitment | Success of methods used to approach and recruit participants | Baseline questionnaire asking parents how they heard about the trial and how they were referred |
Reach | Degree to which an intended audience participates in an intervention | Baseline questionnaire with parents asked about socio-demographic characteristics, to define if participants reflect the locality populations and if any sub-groups were more or less likely to participate |
Dose delivered | The amount of intervention provided by the intervention team | (1) Facilitators will keep notes about unavoidable changes to the program enabling assessment of the number of sessions delivered as planned |
(2) Facilitators’ weekly evaluation forms | ||
(3) Recording of additional interventions or care accessed by both groups | ||
Dose received | Extent of engagement with the intervention by the target population | (1) Facilitators will log attendance by families, including withdrawals |
(2) Parents’ weekly evaluation questionnaires of the sessions | ||
(3) Parents end-of-program questionnaire and interviews, reporting changes made | ||
Fidelity | The extent to which the intervention was delivered as planned, that is, the quality and integrity of the intervention | (1) For three to four sessions (randomly selected) on each Families for Health program, the fidelity will be addressed indirectly from: |
- flip-charts used and developed during the session | ||
- the parents’ end-of-session evaluation, covering whether the session’s topics were mentioned and their perception of the facilitators and the program | ||
- facilitators’ weekly log of their delivery of the program, recording how it went and any variations | ||
(2) Interviews with facilitators at the end of the program | ||
 |  | (3) Parents’ end-of-program questionnaire |