Formative assessment evaluates service quality in new programs, suggesting improvement areas while noting limitations.
These findings suggest that a formative approach to fidelity assessment can generate a meaningful amount of data, capture known variability between programmes, and potentially identify areas for service improvement to enhance quality for small and new programmes. However, critical data regarding the delivery of pharmacological and psychosocial care were not captured, highlighting the limitations of the approach.
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