Table 2.
Fidelity evaluation plan for the LEAP-CP trial
| Data source | Monitoring frequency | Components of fidelity | ||||
| Study design | Training providers | Delivery of treatment | Receipt of treatment | Patient enactment | ||
| Coordinator to CDW | ||||||
| CDW training: 15 times per cycle, 2–3 hours | Fortnightly | X | ||||
| CDW training checklist: written record of content delivered at each CDW training session | Fortnightly | X | ||||
| CDW training log: all training is audio-recorded and a random selection rated | Quarterly | X | X | |||
| CDW to caregiver | ||||||
| Home visit: 15 visits per child, 2 hours | X | X | X | |||
| Progress notes: written record of content delivered at each home visit | Fortnightly | X | X | |||
| Home visit observation* | 3/programme | X | X | X | ||
| Caregiver to infant | ||||||
| Intervention dose (calendar or knotted string method, as per literacy—a knot/mark representing 10 min of intervention) | 3/programme | X | ||||
| Video-recorded 10 min activity observation (Caregiver-infant) | 3/programme | X | ||||
*Checklist based on fidelity tool developed by Sakzewski, Boyd and Ziviani for the REACH trial.80
LEAP-CP, Learning through Everyday Activities with Parents-Cerebral Palsy.