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Table 2 Components of the HENRY implementation optimisation intervention

From: A cluster RCT and process evaluation of an implementation optimisation intervention to promote parental engagement enrolment and attendance in a childhood obesity prevention programme: results of the Optimising Family Engagement in HENRY (OFTEN) trial

Intervention component

Description

Recipient

Procedure

When

1

HENRY outcome report

Data provided to local authority commissioners on how HENRY benefits families that attend to motivate them to support managers in their performance of target behaviours

Reported outcomes include enrolment and attendance and parent-reported behaviour change (e.g. changes to parenting efficacy and family eating behaviours)

Local authority commissioners

Data compiled by HENRY central team who produced and circulated the report to commissioners via email

Post-randomisation and after delivered HENRY programme (usually delivered in line with school terms)

 

Commissioner overview leaflet

Leaflet provided to local authority commissioners to persuade them to support managers in their performance of target behaviours

The leaflet includes a description of centre-level target behaviours and their proposed influence on enrolment and attendance

Local authority commissioners

Circulated by central HENRY team to commissioners via email

Post-randomisation

 

Dashboard report

One page report circulated to managers to persuade them to perform target behaviours

Report includes feedback on how many parents enrolled and attended the previous HENRY programme and the outcomes achieved by families that attended (e.g. changes to parenting efficacy and family eating behaviours)

Children’s centre managers

Data compiled by HENRY central team who circulated reports to HENRY coordinators via email who were responsible for circulating to centre managers

Post-randomisation and after each delivered HENRY programme

 

Manager information workshop

Interactive half-day group workshops for managers delivered in each participating area to learn about the benefits of performing target behaviours along with goal setting and problem solving activities to persuade and enable them to perform them

Children’s centre managers

Local authority HENRY coordinators delivered the workshops at a local venue after receiving training from central HENRY office

Post-randomisation

 

Facilitator refresher training

Interactive half-day group workshop delivered in each participating area for HENRY facilitators to receive training on how to perform target behaviours and receive information on the expected benefits of performing them. Facilitators are also instructed to introduce ‘peer’ recruitment to parents that attend HENRY to encourage them to recruit their friends and family

HENRY facilitators

Local authority HENRY coordinators delivered the workshops at a local venue after receiving training from the central HENRY office

Post-randomisation

 

Revised promotional material (leaflets and posters)

Existing HENRY promotional material revised to more accurately portray what the HENRY programme entails, including a change to the tagline ‘Health, Exercise and Nutrition for the Really Young’ to ‘Healthy Family, Happy Home’ to better depict the holistic nature of the programme

Children’s centre staff and potential participants

Local authority HENRY coordinators distributed promotional material to centres to promote HENRY

Post-randomisation and throughout the follow-up period