Table 6 APEASE criteria applied by ENCOUNTER team to behaviour change techniques following co-design workshops: intervention: intervention 2
BCT | Label | Affordability | Practicability | Effectiveness | Acceptability | Side-effects/safety | Equity | Decision Yes/no | Reasons for exclusion/comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
5.1 | Information about health consequences | ||||||||
Description: Give recruiters information about research being part of clinical care, the importance of maternity care research, rationale for trial | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | Yes | Well received in workshop | |
5.3 | Information about social and environmental consequences | ||||||||
Description: Remind recruiters that all eligible women are entitled to be asked to participate in the trial, and by inviting all eligible women, it means the sample is more likely to be representative, maybe greater chances of trial success, impact on research | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | Yes | Well received at workshop | |
11.2 | Reduce negative emotions | ||||||||
Description: Overcome recruiters’ feelings of apprehension from getting the feeling or the ‘vibe’ that the woman may not be interested in participating in the trial by reminding them it’s OK just to invite women by giving them information | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | Yes | Well received at workshop | |
13.2 | Reframing | ||||||||
Description: Educating recruiters that intervention is about ‘inviting’ (offering the chance) and not necessary recruiting all eligible women. Offering the opportunity to take part in research in the way that health advice/information is offered to everybody | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | Yes | Important concept to the aim of this intervention | |
5.6 | Information about emotional consequences | ||||||||
Description: Invite recruiters to share anecdotes of past emotionally sensitive situations where women were glad to be invited to participate in the trial and may have found inclusion helpful or comforting in their situation | √ | √ | - | √ | √ | √ | Yes | Well received at workshop | |
5.2 | Salience of consequences | ||||||||
Description: Invite previous trial invitees to share their experiences of being approached to take part in a trial in maternity care (via narrative testimonial, short video clip) | √ | - | - | √ | √ | √ | No | Well received at workshop. Exclude as not target behaviour and difficult to ethically justify in APEASE | |