Effect evaluation of a two-year complex intervention to reduce loneliness in non-institutionalised elderly Dutch people

Table 2 Dose delivered and dose received of intervention components of Healthy Ageing directed at the primary target group in the period 2008-2010

Activity	Dose delivered-Records		Dose received-Post-test
Activity	Delivery	Recorded reach (population coverage)	Recalled reach: study population’s familiarity with activities (n = 440)	Recalled participation
Information fair	Yearly one day	± 80 visitors each year	40 (9%)	n/a
Information fair	Twice in total	± 160 in total (0.5%)^a	40 (9%)	n/a
Newspaper article	Monthly publication	Distributed door-to-door, no recorded data available	87 (20%)	n/a
Newspaper article	19 in total	Distributed door-to-door, no recorded data available	87 (20%)	n/a
Posters with slogan	Three mailings to 190 addresses	Not evaluated	8 (2%)	n/a
	(e.g. municipal offices, GPs, physiotherapists, housing agencies for the elderly, welfare organisations, etc.)
	Print number 100
Information meeting	11 workshops	11-100 participants per workshop, on average 33 participants per meeting	84 (19%)	11 (3%)
Information meeting	11 workshops	±350 in total (6%)^b	84 (19%)	11 (3%)
Course Life Stories	1 course (8 meetings)	4 participants (0.1%)^b	35 (8%)	1 (0.2%)
Course Living with a Chronic Disease	1 course (10 meetings)	4 participants (0.1%)^b	39 (9%)	0
Neighbours Connected	10 activities	6-50 participants per activity	48 (11%)	8 (2%)
Neighbours Connected	10 activities	± 220 participants in total (4%)^b	48 (11%)	8 (2%)
Familiar with one or more activities			172 (39%)

^aEstimated percentage of all citizens in the intervention community (± 33,000 inhabitants).
^bEstimated percentages of total target population (± 6,200 persons aged 65 years and over).

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