Table 1 Evaluation plan of the secret Facebook group workshop. Based on Bowen and colleagues’ “How we define feasibility studies” paper [32]

Acceptability

Survey—quantitative qualitative

Are recipients and deliverers satisfied with the method? Does it feel appropriate?

Survey questions involve assessing participant enjoyment, if they felt it was a safe environment to share thoughts, the timing and quantity of posts, among other questions.

Practicality

Survey—quantitative qualitative

To what extent can the workshop be carried out with intended participants using existing resources? Are they able to carry out intervention activities?

Implementation

Memo-ing and overall success of workshop

1. Can it be successfully delivered to participants in some defined but not fully controlled context?

2. What kind of resources is needed?

3. What factors affect implementation?

4. What is the speed and quality of implementation?

Researcher’s own experiences (daily memo-ing and reflecting on process)

Demand

Facebook analytics

1. How likely is this method to be used?

2. What content generated the most and least interaction?

Actual use of the workshop by participants. SocioGraph to measure: most commented posts, most reacted posts, average words per comment, and ratio of “seen by” per “number of comments”