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Table 1 Core STAR MAMA intervention components and moderating factors evaluated

From: What matters when exploring fidelity when using health IT to reduce disparities?

Domain

What is required for high fidelity

Fidelity assessment questions

Specific outcome

[Data Source]

Core fidelity component assessment

1. System Integration (combining participant registry with intervention delivery platform)

(a) Complete registration and uploading of GDM patient details to ATSM system (after baseline enrolment/randomization)

(b) Activation of the ATSM system to initiate intervention delivery (timed to 6 weeks post-partum)

(a) Was the participant-level data integrated into the ATSM system prior to 6 weeks post-partum?

(b) Was the STAR MAMA start correctly implemented for the first call to be delivered 6 weeks post-partum?

(a) % of enrolled women in trial at each clinical site, with data uploaded to the ATSM delivery platform

(b) % of intervention starts correctly linked to delivery date

[System-generated weekly report]

2. Intervention delivery

Correct ATSM ‘push’ of weekly intervention content to each participant, at a pre-specified time and day, based on participant preferences

Did the ATSM system correctly delivery weekly call content to participants?

(a) All the calls were sent as planned

(b) Delivery of all intervention weeks (completeness)

(c) Delivery of correct sequencing of intervention (alignment with intervention logic for post-partum period/infant development)

(a) % of calls correctly delivered

(b) % of participants delivered/not delivered all 20 weeks of calls

(c) % of participants with delivered weeks in the correct sequence for all 20 weeks

[System-generated weekly and daily reports]

3. Consistency of intervention delivery over time

Consistency of ATSM ‘push’ of weekly intervention content across the study intervention period

Did the ATSM system result in error clustering? Or were errors spread out over time across weeks and over the study period?

% of participants with an early (weeks 1–5) vs later (≥ week 6) missed week delivery

[System-generated weekly and daily reports]

4. Health coach responsiveness to participant ‘triggers’

Responsiveness of health coaches to participant triggers generated by touch tone responses to calls

Did health coaches call back participants whose daily reports indicated a trigger warranting further follow up?

% of women with at least one documented trigger who subsequently received a health coach initiated call attempt

[System-generated weekly and daily reports] and [Health Coach Database]

Moderating factors

Health coach consistency of outreach over time

Level of fluctuation in call-back attempts over time by health coaches

Did health coaches make call-back attempts consistently over the study intervention period?

% of triggers over time that received an attempted call back

[System-generated weekly and daily reports] and [Health Coach Database]

Language equity: health coach consistency of outreach for participant language and enrolment site

Level of fluctuation in call-back attempts by language or site

Did health coaches make call-back attempts similarly for Spanish and English speaking participants and for enrolment sites?

% of triggers by language, over time, that received an attempted call back

[System-generated weekly and daily reports] and [Health Coach Database]

Language equity: acceptability of the STAR MAMA calls and health coaching package

N/A

How acceptable was the intervention to enrolled women? Would they do it again or refer others?

Levels of acceptability reported at follow-up after the program was over

[Interview data]