Table 3.
Key themes and subthemes.
| Theme | Subthemes/codes | Participants group n/ratio | Example quote | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| People with MCI N = 31 | Caregiver N = 13 | Therapist N = 10 | |||
| Social connections | Lack of socialization and suitable activities | 4/12.9% | 3/23.3% | 5/50% | I do not want to participate in some activities. I think those activities are not suitable for me [FG3-P1] |
| Mobility challenges and required support | 0/0 | 5/38.5% | 5/50% | The older adults with mobility problems, we will push the wheelchair for a walk. If their children come, they will be taken to a further place [FG1-C2] | |
| Intensive grandparenting responsibilities | 1/3.2% | 0/0 | 1/10% | My son has a 10-year-old 2nd and 3rd grader at home doing homework every day, so if you spend more time on him, you will not have time to do these activities. [FG3-P4] | |
| Feeling excluded in a close-minded community environment | 1/3.2% | 1/7.7% | 3/30% | Some old adults are sometimes not sober (unclear thinking and strange behavior), he also wants to come to participate, but the sober mind of the elderly, he dislikes too much, there may be some of those aspects of the reason [FG6-P3] | |
| Social participation | Lack of motivation to overcome the challenges of social participation | 4/12.9% | 8/61.5% | 4/40% | There is no special need. I can stay indoors for a month [FG3-P4] |
| Lower social efficacy and higher performance expectation | 5/16.1% | 2/15.4% | 8/80% | I wanted to join the dance team before, but I was afraid that my zero-base performance would drag the team down [FG1-P2] | |
| Impaired storytelling ability | 3/9.7% | 3/23.3% | 3/30% | Sometimes, I cannot retell clearly to my husband what I experienced today. The more worried I am, the more I cannot explain what just happened [FG5-P2] | |
| Insufficient ability to perform independently in singing and dancing | 11/35.5% | 3/23.3% | 9/90% | It depends on the people with MCI where he is troubled; if it’s the kind of memory decline, his short-term memory this thing is very troubled, then we go to help him to do the relevant together with the attention to tell him some memory methods, to teach him to use some compensatory measures to learn to use that kind of simplified memory, and then some memory methods [Therapist 7] | |
| Technology for social connections and participation | Lack of motivation for independent use of mobile phones | 5/6.4% | 1/7.7% | 5/50% | I need help with that. I learned this when there was a group of college students visited us; they taught us how to use mobile phone [FG1-P2] |
| Negative social influence of using technology | 4/12.9% | 2/15.4% | 5/50% | But now the things on this phone are also quite complicated; some people have ulterior motives to carry out unreasonable propaganda, I am often criticized by my daughter for believing this [FG1-P3] | |