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.