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Table 2 Participant timeline (actual dates to be inserted prospectively)

From: A community-based service enhancement model of training and employing Ear Health Facilitators to address the crisis in ear and hearing health of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory, the Hearing for Learning Initiative (the HfLI): study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial

Community numbers

Unblind

Lead-in phase (within control periods)

Cross-over dates (transition periods)

Integration and employment commences (intervention periods)

1–2

Month 1 TP 1

Months 1 to 10* TP1-2

Months 10 to 12 TP2

Month 1 TP3

3–6

Month 10* TP2

Months 10 TP2 to month 4 TP3

Months 4 to 6 TP3

Month 7 TP4

7–10

Month 4 TP3

Months 4 to 10 TP4

Months 10 to 12 TP4

Month 1 TP5

11–14

Month 10 TP4

Month 10 TP4 to month 4 TP5

Months 4 to 6 TP5

Month 7 TP6

15–18

Month 4 TP5

Months 4 to 10 TP6

Months 10 to 12 TP6

Month 1 TP7

  1. *Anticipated delay due to COVID-19 ** TP: 6-monthly TimePeriod (Fig 1)