Colliding ideals – an interview study of how intervention researchers address adherence and adaptations in replication studies

Table 1 Types of adaptations made to interventions (n = 33) categorized according to Stirman et al. [12]

Adaptations	Frequency^a
Decision maker
Individual practitioner (professionals)	4
Team /multiple professionals	10
Administrator or supervisor	0
Researcher	22
Purveyor or intervention developer	2
Coalition of stakeholders	5
Contextual adaptation
Intervention format	8
Setting	12
Type of personnel	6
Target population	14
Nature of adaptation
Tailoring/tweaking/refining	8
Adding elements	15
Removing elements	11
Shortening/condensing	5
Lengthening/extending	2
Substituting elements	1
Re-ordering elements	0
Integrating another approach into the intervention	0
Integrating the intervention into another approach	0
Departing from the intervention	0
Loosening structure	0
Repeating elements	0

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