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Table 2 Description of how BFBW was modified according to Stirman model

From: Development of a scalable weight loss intervention for low-income workers through adaptation of interactive obesity treatment approach (iOTA)

Modification

BFBW

WFY

Who made decision to modify?

 Individual practitioner

 

 Team

 

 Administrator or supervisor

 

 Researcher

 

Surveys, interviews, and focus groups with the target population and supervisors

 Intervention Developer

 

A member of the BFBW development team included on the WFY workgroup

 Coalition of Stakeholders

 

What was Modified

 Content modification

 

Y (described below)

 Context modification

 

Y (described below)

 Training and Evaluation

Community health worker training

Health coach training

Context modifications

 Population

Low-income and racially diverse clinic patients with obesity and hypertension

Low-income and racially diverse healthcare workers with obesity

 Setting

Community health centers

Worksite

 Format

Interactive Voice Recognition or website with community health worker phone calls

SMS with health coach meetings

 Personnel

Physician and community health worker

Health coach

Level of delivery for Content modifications

 Individual participant

Participant selects behavioral goals

Participant selects behavioral goals

 Group

 

 Individual practitioner

 

 Clinic/unit

Community health center

 Organization

Community health center

Work group within an academic hospital system

 Network

 

Nature of the Content modification

 1-Tailoring/tweaking/refining

 

Goals were tailored to the new setting, population, and mode of delivery

 2-Integrating the intervention into another framework

 

 3-Integrating another treatment into the intervention

 

 4-Removing/skipping elements

 

Hypertension medication adherence component was removed

 5-Lengthening/extending (pacing/timing)

24 months

24 months

 6-Shortening/condensing (pacing/timing)

24 months

24 months

 7-Adjusting the order of intervention components

 

 8-Adding elements

 

 9-Departing from the intervention (“drift”)

 

 10-Loosening structure

 

 11-Repeating components

 

 12- Substituting

15 goals, 7 removed– based on updated scientific evidence and target population perspectives

11 goals added – based on updated scientific evidence and target population perspectives

MyHealthRisk

Baseline survey to inform plan

Group support sessions

Workgroup level intervention