Table 1.

Qualitative Steps for Intervention Adaptation

Step	Timeline
1. Identify and review existing intervention	2 weeks
2. Set adaptation goals	2 weeks and several regular meetings
3. Write focus group agendas	1 month of weekly meetings
4. Conduct focus groups
4a. Recruit participants	2–4 weeks
4b. Conduct focus groups	3 months
5. Asses the data via debriefs and meetings	3 months (concurrent with Step 4b)
6. Code the data	~6 months
6a. Transcribe and clean focus groups	2 months
6b. Develop coding scheme	1 month of weekly meetings
6c. Coding transcripts, including concording	6 weeks of weekly meetings
6d. Data entry into NVivo	2 weeks
7. Analysis	3 weeks
8. Intervention adaptation	1 week with daily coinvestigator meetings
9. Conduct focus groups to get feedback on the adapted intervention	6 weeks
10. Finalize intervention	3 weeks