Feasibility measurement | Measurement definition | Feasibility criteria |
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Acceptability | • Percentage of eligible patients who agree to participate in the trial • Patients’ choice of type of informal caregiver Measures of social network members as informal caregivers: • Percentage of potential caregivers who accepts to be an informal caregiver • Percentage assessed to have prerequisites to be an informal caregiver | 25% of patients who are screened and found to be lonely agree to participate in the trial 50% of invited social network members accept participation and is assessed to have prerequisites to be an informal caregiver |
Adherence | • Percentage of informal caregivers participating in all three intervention consultations with the trial staff • Percentage in contact with the patient at least once a week face to face, by phone or virtually | 75% of informal caregivers participate in three out of four consultations 75% of included patients adhere to the intervention, i.e., having contact with the informal caregiver once a week for a minimum of 8 out of 12 weeks |
Loss to follow-up | • Percentage of patients and informal caregivers who do not complete the trial | A maximum of 25% of informal caregivers do not attend two out of three intervention consultations with the trial staff attend A maximum of 25% of patients do not complete the trial |
Resource consumption | • Time resources used to include study participants • Time resources used to complete the three nurse consultations | N/A for feasibility |