Summary of the implementation outcome measures and processes
| Outcomes | Participants/data | Process/description |
| (1–3) Feasibility, Appropriateness and Acceptability (FAA) | A cross-section of health workers in Ghana | Assessed via feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness20 using a structured online health worker questionnaire based on the measures developed by Weiner et al.25 To be done before or within Year 1 of PINGS-II implementation. |
| Purposively sampled health policy actors | To be assessed as part of in-depth interviews using a semi-structured interview guide within Year 1 of PINGS-II implementation. | |
| Participants in the PINGS-II intervention | To be assessed via the structured patient questionnaire administered at month 3 and repeated at month 12. To be done simultaneously with ‘Fidelity’ and ‘Cost’. | |
| (4) Fidelity | Participants in the PINGS-II trial | To be assessed via the structured patient questionnaire at month 3 and repeated at month 12. Other supporting data include patient interviews and routine project operational data. |
| (5) Cost (self-reported) | Participants in the PINGS-II trial | Patients’ self-reported costs of care to be done using the structured patients’ questionnaire at month 3 and repeated at month 12. To be done simultaneously with ‘Fidelity’ and ‘FAA’. |
| (6) Implementation facilitators and barriers (context) | Trial site clinicians | In-depth interviews using semi-structured interview guide for clinicians and policy actors to explore enablers and barriers to PINGS-II. |
| Participants in the PINGS-II intervention | In-depth interviews and focus group discussions using patients’ semi-structured interview guide exploring enablers and barriers to using PINGS-II. | |
| Policy actors within the health sector in Ghana | In-depth interviews using semi-structured interview guide for clinicians and policy actors to explore enablers and barriers to PINGS-II. |
PINGS-II, Phone-based Interventions under Nurse Guidance after Stroke.