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. 2022 Jul 5;12(7):e057790. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057790

Table 2.

Some of the questions addressed through the process evaluation that could explain the barriers and facilitators to the future roll-out of supported home exercise programmes for the management of musculoskeletal problems, based on the Maintenance and Adoption aspects of the RE-AIM framework

Patients
  • Are people with common musculoskeletal conditions willing to receive a supported home exercise programme via an App, outside of a trial setting, and why?

  • Was the intervention perceived to be more convenient for the Supported Home Exercise Group? Why was that?

  • What were the costs associated with receiving treatment to the patients of the Supported Home Exercise Group and Face-to-Face Physiotherapy Group?

  • Would patients recommend the intervention to others, and why?

Physiotherapists
  • Did physiotherapists feel that the intervention was effective? If not, why not?

  • Would physiotherapists recommend this intervention beyond the trial setting, and why or why not?

  • What will be the reasons that physiotherapists are willing to adopt the intervention, and use all features of the App (and website) as part of mainstream treatment outside of a trial setting?

  • What were the reported problems with providing the intervention?

Stakeholders: health services managers and policy makers
  • Do the stakeholders believe this intervention is scalable, and why is that?

  • Are stakeholders willing to adopt this model of care as part of their service delivery?

  • Are stakeholders willing to invest in scaling up this intervention?

  • Would stakeholders advocate for this intervention?

Health systems
  • Do public hospitals have the resources to deliver a supported home exercise programme?

  • Can this intervention be incorporated into mainstream treatment?

  • Are the results generalisable to other patients, public or private hospitals, the private sector or other countries?

RE-AIM, Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance.