18. TIDieR ‐ Martindale‐Adams 2013.

Study	Martindale‐Adams 2013
TIDieR item	Experimental intervention	Control intervention
BRIEF NAME	Telephone support (CONNECT).	Printed materials.
WHY	Content and structure of the intervention were based on the 6‐month REACH II intervention of 12 individual in‐home and telephone sessions and five telephone support group sessions.	No described.
WHAT materials	Session materials consisted of a Caregiver Notebook and commercially available pamphlets. The Notebook comprised 29 behaviour – management chapters of five to eight pages each (i.e., bathing, repeated questions), and 17 caregiver stress/coping chapters (i.e., assertiveness, communication, grief) based on research and practice, written in large print and at a fifth‐grade reading level.	Control caregivers received pamphlets on dementia and safety as well as telephone numbers for local resources.
PROCEDURES	Like REACH, the multi‐component intervention targeted caregiving risks, including risks associated with emotional and physical well‐being, safety, burden, social support, and patient behaviour management. The first six sessions covered all Caregiver Notebook chapters that were standardized to include the following topics: · introduction · basic information about dementia and financial and legal issues · safety · caregiver health and well‐being · communication · problem solving The sessions were semi‐structured telephone calls with education, skills‐building, and support. Each session began with a relaxation exercise, caregiver updates, review of strategies tried from the preceding session’s topic, and the group leader’s presentation on a behaviour management or stress and coping topic.The rest of the session included discussion and practice by the entire group on the session’s topic, selection of individual strategies to try, selection of the next session’s topic, and closure, including another signal breath relaxation exercise.	Control caregivers received pamphlets on dementia and safety as well as telephone numbers for local resources.
WHO provided	Trained professionals.
HOW delivered	Telephone.	Printed materials.
WHERE occurred	At home.
WHEN and HOW MUCH	Groups met 14 times over 1 year. The support groups met bi‐weekly for 2 months and monthly thereafter for 1 year, for a total of 14 hour‐long sessions.	No described.
TAILORING	Interventions were comprehensively designed, not tailored to cover individual or unmeet needs.
MODIFICATIONS	None described.
HOW WELL planned	No described.
HOW WELL actual	Of the 77 intervention caregivers, 47 (61%) had at least 75% of the 14 sessions and 59 (76.6%) completed at least half. Six caregivers (7.8%) had fewer than three sessions.	No applicable.