Table 3 Other feasibility objectives
Objective | Measurement |
|---|---|
To evaluate safety | Record and evaluate adverse events |
To define usual exercise care for chronic non-specific neck pain | Usual exercise care audio-recordings Usual exercise care observations completed by chief investigator Interviews with physiotherapists delivering usual exercise care after the majority of treatment has been completed |
To deliver and gather feedback to help refine the physiotherapist training and intervention materials/procedures | Training evaluation questionnaire Neck Exercise Questionnaire Interviews with physiotherapists delivering EPIC-Neck programme after the majority of treatment has been completed |
To refine the EPIC-Neck logic model | EPIC-Neck patient participant interviews at 4 months EPIC-Neck follow-up questionnaires Interviews with physiotherapists delivering EPIC-Neck programme after the majority of treatment has been completed |
To explore the demographics of people who do and do not enrol onto the study | EPIC-Neck participant screening and recruitment log. Data collected are as follows: age, gender, ethnicity, first language (if available), requirement of an interpreter, indices of multiple deprivation decile, reasons for ineligibility or decline |