Developing and Assessing the Acceptability of an Information Booklet for Patients in Surveillance for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: An Intervention Development Study

We set up a patient panel specifically for this study. We identified five men from different sources including asking the vascular clinicians on the team to invite patients to consider joining the panel and approaching existing health research studies patient panels to identify men who had AAA. One member of our team was the patient representative on the research committee for the NHS AAA Screening Programme in England. He attended all our patient panel meetings. The panel reviewed all the documents we used to invite men to different parts of the study, offered advice about recruitment, and gave feedback about the findings. They offered advice about the prototypes of the information booklet.