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Table 2 Operational objectives and evaluation components for the DP-TRANSFERS translational programme in Catalonia

From: Rationale and design of the DP-TRANSFERS project: diabetes prevention-transferring findings from European research to society in Catalonia

 

Operational objective

Process indicators

Output indicators

Outcome/impact indicators

Timeframe

Deliverables

1

To establish a PHC representative multidisciplinary SC to implement a single common translational protocol and a curriculum for the training of prevention managers

Involving at least 2 professionals (nurse and GP) in each coordinating centre

Involving endocrinologist, epidemiologist, dietician and experts in developing health interventions within a community setting

How the SC is working on?

Assessment of SC practice staff understanding and commitment with the programme

Regularly scheduled SC meetings Focus group interview with SC members

Face-to-face workshops for facilitators designed

Administrative structures of each involved institution implemented

Collaborative groupware implemented

Ongoing

2015–2018

Annual scientific and financial report Minutes of the SC meetings

Working guidelines issued

2

To identify needs, design and adapt the DE-PLAN-CAT intensive lifestyle intervention to the structural baseline conditions in primary care settings

Prioritizing determinants of the real-life clinical practice interventions which are associated with and could predict a beneficial outcome (from DE-PLAN-CAT experience)

Interviews and focus groups with practice facilitators staff developed

Predictors of success identified

Participants’ barriers to attendance at group sessions identified

Number and type of PHC participating centres

Facilitators’ workshops development in-depth analysis

Perceived level of collaboration

Ongoing

2015–2016

Intervention manual

Minutes of the meetings and workshops

3

To develop a specific set of easily accessible didactic material for the lifestyle intervention (presentations, information sheets and feed-back exercises)

Adapting from own files in conventional and digital format

Personnel using didactic material

Facilitator and participant opinion

Pilot group intervention (testing materials in real practice). Required adjustments

To what extent the material is used by facilitators and participants?

Focus group with lifestyle officers

Data set about the use of the material ready for analyses

Feedback on teaching materials

Maintenance in programme

What features were considered useful/not useful by the users?

Proportion of facilitators and participants who would recommend the didactic material

Proportion of personnel who would continue to use the material

Ongoing

2015–2016

3 months after group sessions were started

Core intervention materials delivered

Online set of didactic material available

4

To assess the sustainability and quality of translation process (representative sample) through the evaluation of the resources (balance and cost); the actions (intervention effect) and the opinion of the target population (facilitators and participants)

Specific WEB and eCRF built

Facilitators trained for programme Facilitators with opinion evaluated

Participants evaluated for eligibility

Participants starting the intervention

Participants with complete follow-up

Participants with opinion evaluated

Statistical analyses-participants’ database

Number of PHC teams involved

Participants achieving lifestyle changes (at least 2 or more prefixed intervention goals)

Background, psychosocial and clinic data collected

QoL and opinion collected

Inventory of resources used

Changes in dietary patterns and physical activity from baseline

Changes in clinical risk factors (body weight, PG, HbA1c, cholesterol) from baseline

Economic analysis (based on direct cost of resources used)

Satisfaction and QoL analysis

2016-2018

Towards the end of the programme (24-month follow up)

Specific WEB and eCRF ready for continued use.

Report on the intervention effect Geographic map of the translation Publishing results

  1. PHC primary health care, SC Steering Committee, GP general practitioner, DE-PLAN-CAT diabetes in Europe-prevention using lifestyle, physical activity and nutritional intervention-Catalonia, eCRF electronic case report form, QoL quality of life, PG plasma glucose, HbA1c haemoglobin A1c