Effect and cost of an after-school dance programme on the physical activity of 11–12 year old girls: The Bristol Girls Dance Project, a school-based cluster randomised controlled trial

Table 6 BGDP resources and costs

Category and description of resources	Unit cost £	Number of units	Total cost £	Mean (SD) cost per school £ (n = 9)
Recruitment and marketing costs^a			£6,573	£730
One-off training resources
Lead dance instructor delivery of dance instructor induction training			£297	£33
Dance instructor induction training	£32/hour	32 hours	£1,024	£114 (£64)
Travel expenses for induction training^b			£40	£4 (£6)
Lead dance instructor delivery of dance instructor booster training			£180	£20
Dance instructor booster training	£32/hour	26 hours	£832	£92 (£43)
Travel expenses for booster training^b			£43	£5 (£6)
Recurrent programme preparation resources
Printing - training guide	£3.20/guide	12 guides	£38	£4
Printing - dance instructor guide	£15.90/guide	12 guides	£191	£21
Recurrent programme delivery resources
Programme delivery^c	£32/hour	439 hours	£14,040	£1,560 (£53)
Travel expenses for programme delivery^b			£2,915	£324 (£130)
Printing materials for programme delivery^d			£2,013	£224
Indicative total cost^e			£21,613	£2,401 (£104)
Indicative total costs (excluding one-off training)			£19,197	£2,133 (£139)
Total cost per girl (95 % CI)^f			£73 (£71-£75)

^aExcluded from indicative total cost.
^bDance instructors could claim up to £10 travel expenses per session, average travel expenses claimed for induction training, booster training and programme delivery = £333 (SD = £136).
^cDance instructors were paid £32.00 per hour (each dance session was 1.25 hours in duration), sessions claimed ranged from 2–71 sessions, average sessions claimed 34 (SD = 19). Additional programme delivery expenses were claimed by dance instructors if they had provided cover for another dance instructor during programme delivery.
^dRegisters, dance diaries, spring half term reminder cards, Easter reminder cards, summer half term reminder cards, post-intervention dance booklets.
^eMainstream implementation of the programme would not include recruitment and marketing costs and were therefore excluded from the indicative total cost of BGDP.
^fAverage cost per school / maximum number of girls recruited from each school (n = 33).

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