Practitioner timelines
Allocation | Postallocation (week) | On completing patient recruitment | On completing patient follow-up | ||||||
Timepoint | 0 | +1 day | 1 | 2 | 3–8 | 8 | 34 | ||
Enrolment: | |||||||||
Eligibility screen | X | ||||||||
Informed consent | X | ||||||||
Site initiation visit | X | ||||||||
Allocation | X | ||||||||
Interventions: | |||||||||
EMPathicO training | |||||||||
No training (control) | |||||||||
Assessments: | |||||||||
Demographic and professional characteristics | X | ||||||||
Self-efficacy for empathy and optimism | X | X | X | ||||||
Expectations, intentions for EMPathicO skills * | X | X | X | ||||||
Practitioner-reported other training | X | X | |||||||
Qualitative interview | X | X* | |||||||
Patient recruitment | |||||||||
Prepare invitations | |||||||||
Recruit patients |
*Intervention-arm practitioners only.