TABLE 1.

Interview guide.

	Overarching questions	Support questions
1	Suddenly being a family member of a COVID‐19 ill loved one in the ICU?	How did you feel when it happened? Did anyone else in your close family support you? Were you able to sleep?
2	Were you at all allowed to come in to visit your loved one in the intensive care unit?	If not, what kind of contact did you have with doctors and nurses? Did you use telephone/video? What kind of feelings and thoughts did you have about not being allowed to visit?
3	What did the doctors and nurses talk about with you?	Did you get the information you needed? Did you feel that they cared for you? Were you comforted?
4	Experience of hope	What gave you hope during the time your loved one was in the intensive care unit?
5	Coming home	How did you feel when your loved one came home? Please describe emotions, practical challenges, support/follow‐up
6	As a family member, did you receive any follow‐up afterwards?	In which way? What has it meant to you?