Table 1.

Success criteria for full evaluation.

Success criteria	Achieved
A recruitment rate of a minimum 70% of our target (30 participants)	28 consented. 93% of target recruitment rate.
A retention rate of 70% at 6 months	20/28 at 6 months. 71% retention rate.
A positive evaluation of feasibility and acceptability to family carers	Questionnaires were completed with no missing items on any of the questionnaires and positive evaluation (see Table 3)