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Table 1 Building Blocks Focus Group sampling criteria per site

From: Implementation of the Family Nurse Partnership programme in England: experiences of key health professionals explored through trial parallel process evaluation

Site ID

Site sampling criteria

Professional groups

Focus group time frame

G

Wave 1, smaller city/urban character, low trial recruitment

FN, HV, MW

Round 1:

15 March to 7 June 2011

(NB low-medium-high recruitment measured in total number of women recruited)

R

Wave 2, rural, medium trial recruitment

FN, HV(× 2), MW

N

Wave 1, smaller city/rural character, low trial recruitment

FN, HV, MW

Q

Wave 2, large city, high trial recruitment

FN, HV, MW

H

Wave 1, urban, late* trial recruiting site

FN

Round 2:

26 April to 25 June 2012

(all sites expected to have medium to high number of handovers at time of FG meeting)

J

Wave 1, London, early stop* trial recruiting site

FN, HV

C

Wave 2, urban, late trial recruiting site

FN

I

Wave 2, rural, medium length* trial recruitment

FN, HV

  1. *early/medium/late refers to length of trial recruitment period which varied across sites: early: recruitment to trial finished by end March 2010, medium: finished by end May 2010, late: finished by end June 2010