Table 2.

Feasibility outcomes and data sources

Feasibility Outcomes		Data source
Feasibility outcomes - massage practitioners
i) Feasibility of recruiting massage practitioners for practice-based research	• Number of expressions of interest received • Number of practitioners who enrolled and completed the training • Time to recruit practitioners • Number of practitioners who completed the study	• Research logs
ii) Feasibility of massage practitioners recruiting their clients for practice-based clinical research	• Number of clients enrolled • Number of clients who completed the study • Time to recruit clients	• Research logs
iii) Practitioners’ compliance with study protocols	• Number of practitioners who submitted all client report forms	• Client report forms submitted to research assistant
iv) Practitioners’ knowledge of and confidence in research pre-study	• Previous involvement in research (qualitative responses) • Confidence in managing the research in their clinics (qualitative responses and a sliding scale 0-100, 0 = no confidence; 100 = complete confidence) • Confidence that the study would be able to measure effectiveness of massage treatment (qualitative responses)	• Online pre-study survey
v) Practitioners’ post-study reflections on participating in the study	• Focus group discussions used a semi-structured interview guide to explore practitioners’ experiences of participation	• Focus group discussions post-study
Feasibility outcomes - clients
vi) Client compliance with using the app	• Ease of teaching clients to use the app • Number of clients who submitted all walk data	• Research logs
vii) Client subjective perceptions of pain and mobility (measured weekly by self-report in pain and mobility diaries)	• Pain - measured by a 0–10 visual analogue scale [27] (0 = no pain at all; 10 = the worst pain you can imagine) • Mobility - self-reported qualitative data	• Client pain and mobility diaries
viii) Client subjective perceptions of pain and mobility (as recorded by practitioners in Client Report Forms)	• Pain- measured by a 0–10 visual analogue scale [27] (0 = no pain at all; 10 = the worst pain you can imagine) • Mobility - self-reported qualitative data	• Client Report Forms completed by practitioners at the beginning of each client visit as part of medical history
Feasibility outcomes – phone app measures
Feasibility of phone app measures to detect actual changes in average and maximum walking speed	• Changes in average walking speed over 5-weeks as measured by the app • Changes in maximum walking speed over 5-weeks as measured by the app	• Data from the app recording average and maximum walking speeds for each walk taken by a client