Process evaluation of APPLE-Tree (active prevention in people at risk of dementia through lifestyle behaviour change and technology to build resilience): dementia prevention study focused on health and lifestyle changes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This concurrent, exploratory, mixed-methods process evaluation, embedded within a randomised controlled trial, investigates how the 'active prevention in people at risk of dementia through lifestyle behaviour change and technology to build resilience' (APPLE-Tree) secondary dementia prevention intervention might support behavioural and lifestyle goal attainment, through determining the contexts influencing engagement and testing intervention theoretical assumptions.

Aims

We aimed to investigate (a) intervention reach, dose and fidelity, (b) contexts influencing engagement and (c) alignment of findings with theoretical assumptions about how the intervention might have supported participants to meet personalised behavioural and lifestyle goals.

Method

We meas

SUBMITTER: Whitfield E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12641417 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature