Research objectives and methods of assessment to investigate the feasibility of the personalised prehabilitation programme in clinical practice
| Research objective | Method of assessment(s) |
| To estimate eligibility, recruitment, refusal and attrition rates (including the reasons why) | Descriptive statistics—number approached, eligible, recruited, refused and number who drop out and at what stage Field notes taken during the Lung Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team Participant discussion |
| To assess adherence to the personalised prehabilitation interventions | Weekly telephone call—adherence to goals set |
| To assess the barriers and facilitators to adherence and intervention fidelity | Daily diary—symptom log Weekly telephone call Short free text questionnaire at the end of the study, analysed thematically |
| To evaluate acceptability of the study processes and outcome measures | Completion rates Weekly telephone call Short free text questionnaire at the end of the study, analysed thematically |
| To determine the ‘prehabilitation window’ (length of time between diagnosis and the start of treatment) | Descriptive statistics—date of diagnosis, date of start of treatment, date of start and finish of prehabilitation |
| To determine the extent to which the intervention/s are likely to have an impact on psychological well-being, nutrition and/or physical activity and quality of life | Questionnaires—change between baseline and follow-up Daily diary—symptom log Weekly telephone call Short free text questionnaire at the end of the study, analysed thematically Functional objective assessments |
| To determine the number of participants who require universal, targeted and specialist intervention | Questionnaires—level of need and readiness Descriptive statistics |