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Table 3 Overview of costs of the PRO-FIT intervention in Euros per participant

From: An economic evaluation alongside a randomized controlled trial evaluating an individually tailored lifestyle intervention compared with usual care in people with Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Cost category

Included resources

Cost prices per unita

Costs per participant

Development

 Developmental costs of brochure and coaching logs

Content development (30 h) by junior researcher

Concept development/graphic design (24 h) by graphic designer

Final development (12 h) by brochure designer

€ 35.75/h

€ 75/h

€ 65/h

Є 2.80

 Computer-based part of intervention, including website and application for providing computer-tailored advice

Web development (12 h) by web-developer

Registration website (once)

Development/adjustment tailoring application by junior researcher (216 h)

Account tailoring application

€ 65/h

€ 53.95§

€ 35.75/h

€ 3,930.25§

Є 5.44

 Brochures, logs, website and tailoring application

Printing of brochure/coaching logs

Hosting website

Hosting tailoring application

€ 0.10/piece

€ 119.40/year§

€ 171/year§

Є 1.64

Implementation based on 2,700 participants and an implementation period of 5 years

 Training of lifestyle coaches

A 3-day Motivational Interviewing workshop

5 lifestyle coaches, 3 days, 8 h/day

Supervisor, 3 days, 8 h/day

€ 5,100§

€ 38.38/h

€ 35.75/h

Є 3.94

 Supervision of lifestyle coaches (10 meetings of 2 h each)

Meeting rooms rental costs

5 lifestyle coaches

Supervisor

€ 11.50/room/h§

€ 38.38/h

€ 35.75/h

Є 1.77

 Counselling

1 face-to-face counselling session (45 min) by lifestyle coach

5 telephone booster sessions (15 min/session) by lifestyle coach

Administrative work (25 min/participant) by lifestyle coach

Travelling (82 km/participant and 1 h/participant)

€ 38.38/h

€ 38.38/h

€ 38.38/h

€ 0.20/km

€ 38.38/h

Є 147.64

Total intervention costs

  

Є 163.13

  1. hrs hours, mins minutes.
  2. aSalary costs were derived from the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Academic Medical Centers (CAO UMC) 2010 (for junior researcher, lifestyle coach and supervisor), or by price offers from web developers, graphic/brochure designers.
  3. §Costing was based on invoices/price offers.