Table 1.
Dimension | Definition | Measured construct | Data source |
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Reach | The absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of individuals who are willing to participate in an initiative, intervention, or program. | Number and characteristics of participants and non-participants, reasons for non-participation | Administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist, focus groups with multi-professional providers, paper survey |
Effectiveness | The impact of an intervention on important outcomes, including potential negative effects, quality of life, and economic outcomes. | Proportion of participants with excessive weight gain, infant body composition and weight development | Administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist |
Maternal lifestyle, knowledge, infant feeding, infant diet and physical activity | Electronic survey | ||
Adoption | The absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of settings and intervention agents (people who deliver the program) who are willing to initiate a program. | Proportion and characteristics of participating multi-professional practices, reasons for non-participation and drop-out of practices | Administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist, documents and publicly available statistics |
Implementation | Setting level: the intervention agents’ fidelity to the various elements of an intervention’s protocol, including consistency of delivery as intended and the time and cost of the intervention. | Implementation of brief lifestyle advice intervention (how and by whom?) | Focus groups with multi-professional providers, |
Intervention costs: human resources and time, health service use, implementation costs and training | Administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist, interviews with study participants, social health insurance claims data, documents | ||
Utilization of the GeMuKi Assist Counseling Tool, local adaptations of the intervention | Focus groups with multi-professional providers, interviews with study participants, administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist | ||
Individual level: the clients’ use of the intervention strategies. |
Utilization of GeMuKi-Assist App, goal setting, links etc. Attainment of lifestyle change goals |
Interviews with study participants, administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist | |
Maintenance | Setting level: the extent to which a program or policy becomes institutionalized or part of the routine organizational practices and policies. | Providers becoming experienced in delivering lifestyle advice, lifestyle advice becoming a routine component of practice processes | Focus groups with multi-professional providers, administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist |
Individual level: the long-term effects of a program on outcomes after 6+ months after the most recent intervention contact. | Maintenance of lifestyle changes and weight, drop out of study participants | Administrative data in GeMuKi-Assist, electronic survey |