Table 5.
Costs of implementing Family Talk.
| Salary per hour (mean €, SD) | 31.27 (7.37) |
|---|---|
| One off costs (mean hours, SD) | |
| -Family Talk training | 10.86 (3.15) |
| -Securing buy-in1 | 10.43 (12.27) |
| Subtotal | 21.29 (7.71) |
| Recurring costs (mean hours, SD) | |
| -Recruiting families | 2.74 (3.34) |
| -FT sessions | 10.14 (5.85) |
| -Travel to family home | 2.65 (5.90) |
| -Supervision | 9.03 (4.72) |
| Subtotal | 24.56 (4.95) |
| Other recurring costs (mean €, SD) | |
| -Materials | 6.96 (2.30) |
| -Travel for home visits | 23.73 (6.16) |
| Subtotal | 30.69 (8.46) |
| Total mean cost per clinician | 1464.42 (124.89) |
| Total cost € of delivery to 50 families | 38, 074.95 |
| Total cost € per family (including one-off costs) | €761.50 |
| Total cost € per family (excluding one-off costs) | €415.31 |
1 Buy-in involved meetings and presentations with management and colleagues to secure agreement to implement FT within their service as well as time involved in setting up referral structures.
The bold text merely highlights the most important bottom-line information - the overall costs of delivering the intervention, including and excluding one-off costs.