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Table 1 Data collections at different points in time

From: Digi-Do: a digital information tool to support patients with breast cancer before, during, and after start of radiotherapy treatment: an RCT study protocol

Point in time

Data collections

Baseline

Socio-demographic and co-morbidity data

Distress (DIS-A); Self-efficacy (GSES); Health literacy (functional, communicative & critical, e-HLQ)

Notebook written by 30 patients

Week of commencing RT treatment

Distress (DIS-A)

Notebook collected and returned after reading

Within a month of completion of RT treatment

In depth/or telephone interviews with participants

Six months post-completion of RT treatment

Distress (DIS-A); Self-efficacy (GSES); Health literacy (functional, communicative & critical, e-HLQ)

Telephone interviews with participants