Table 1.

Data collections at different points in time

Point in time	Data collections
Baseline	Socio-demographic and co-morbidity data Distress (DIS-A); Self-efficacy (GSES); Health literacy (functional, communicative & critical, e-HLQ) Notebook written by 30 patients
Week of commencing RT treatment	Distress (DIS-A) Notebook collected and returned after reading
Within a month of completion of RT treatment	In depth/or telephone interviews with participants
Six months post-completion of RT treatment	Distress (DIS-A); Self-efficacy (GSES); Health literacy (functional, communicative & critical, e-HLQ) Telephone interviews with participants