Table 2.
Treatment fidelity (italicized items: both treatment and control sites; items not bolded: treatment site only)
| Focus | Data | Evidence of treatment fidelity |
|---|---|---|
| Delivery | Assessment of the hospital environment and policy [54, 55] (Component I) | Completion of assessments by Fam-FFC research nurse. |
| Education: percentage of nurses exposed (Component II) [54, 55] | 80% of all nursing staff working on participating nursing units (# exposed/total # nursing staff) | |
| Goal attainment forms [69] (Component III) | Forms completed on all recruited patients in treatment units | |
| Fam-Path Audit [54, 55] (Component III) | Completion of bedside goals and treatment plans, discharge checklist, post-acute follow-up and plan update | |
| Receipt | Knowledge of Fam-FFC Test [54, 55] | Mean score of > 80% among nursing staff after education |
| Assessment of the hospital environment and policy [54, 55] | Conducted at the beginning and end of the study at each site to evaluate for evidence of change(s) made over the course of the study | |
| Goal Attainment Scale [69] | Goal attainment scores incorporated into care plans | |
| Enactment | Function Focused Care Behavior Checklist (FFC-BC) [54, 55, 71] (Component IV) |
Performance of Fam-FFC by nurses based on observations of care interactions in the hospital; evaluated on at least 50% of the patients per site |