Assessing Treatment Fidelity within an Epilepsy Randomized Controlled Trial: Seizure First Aid Training for People with Epilepsy Who Visit Emergency Departments

Table 2

Characteristics of the courses.

Course number	Course duration (excluding breaks)	Participant number	Adherence rating		Didacticism rating—ELAN—percentage of time facilitator speaking
			No. of items fully delivered (%)	rating across 37 items (SD)
1	189.00	5.00	35 (94.6%)	1.97 (0.11)	54.45%
2	182.00	8.00	33 (89.2%)	1.91 (0.35)	57.57%
3	166.00	6.00	33 (89.2%)	1.92 (0.25)	63.94%
4	112.00	6.00	35 (94.6%)	1.95 (0.22)	54.48%
5	154.00	4.00	32 (86.5%)	1.86 (0.40)	49.59%
6	126.00	2.00	27 (73.0%)	1.65 (0.69)	48.87%
7	137.00	4.00	33 (89.2%)	1.88 (0.39)	59.42%
Across 7 courses			228 (88.0%)	1.88 (0.11)	55.47% ()

Notes. Each course consisted of 6 modules. Together, these contained 37 items that were to be delivered. The extent of each of these items delivered was rated using the following scale: not delivered, partially delivered, and fully delivered.