Goal | NIH description | Strategies used in HeLTI SA | Fidelity monitoring tools for HeLTI SA |
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Ensure participant use of cognitive skills | Ensure that participants actually use the cognitive skills provided in the intervention in appropriate life settings | - Health helpers guide participants on SMARTER goals, monitor the progress, and review the barriers to the use of cognitive skills. - During telephone sessions, health helpers discuss the ongoing use of new cognitive skills underpinning SMARTER goals. | - Observation and recording of sessions to review the use of cognitive skills. - Qualitative methods to assess participants’ perceptions of intervention and changes they have implemented as a result. |
Ensure participant use of behavioural skills | Ensure that participants actually use the behavioural skills provided in the intervention in appropriate life settings | - Monthly contact encourages adherence to and allows for monitoring of participant behavioural changes. - Contact and activity log on REDCap are filled in by health helper. - Health helpers guide participants on SMARTER goals, monitor the progress, and review the barriers to the use of behavioural skills. | - Observation and recording of sessions to review the behavioural changes reported by participants. - Monitoring electronic log of monthly contact on REDCap by the project coordinator. - Qualitative methods to assess participants’ perceptions of intervention and changes they have implemented as a result. |