Table 2 Normalisation Process Theory components (adapted from Murray et al. 2010) [19]
Construct | Component | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
Coherence The meaning of the intervention for interviewees | Differentiation | How participants felt the trial procedures differed from routine practice |
Communal Specification | Did participants have a shared understanding of the trial procedures aims | |
Individual Specification | Did participants have their own understanding of the trial procedures aims | |
Internalisation | Did participants have an understanding of the importance and value of the trial procedures | |
Cognitive Participation The level of engagement in the intervention by interviewees | Initiation | Were participants willing to push the trial ideas forward |
Enrolment | Did participants work together to make the trial succeed | |
Legitimation | Did the participants feel the trial was worthy of their time | |
Activation | How likely participants were to sustain the actions within the trial procedures | |
Collective Action The effort interviewees made to make the intervention work | Interactional Workability | How trial procedures affected the work of participants together |
Relational Integration | The knowledge that builds accountability among participants | |
Skillset Workability | Were the trial procedures suitable to the skillset of participants | |
Contextual Integration | How compatible the trial was with existing policies, work practices or guidelines | |
Reflexive Monitoring The judgement given by interviewees | Systematisation | How effective the trial procedures were for participants |
Communal Appraisal | How groups of participants evaluated the trial procedures | |
Individual Appraisal | The personal relationship participants had with the trial procedures | |
Reconfiguration | Can the trial procedures be modified or adapted based on the experience of participants |