Table 3.
The list of questions for the interviews.
| Question 1 | Why do you go for walks in your neighbourhood? What are your motivations? What influence, if any, has COVID-19 had on your motivation(s) to walk in your neighbourhood or influenced your experience walking in your neighbourhood? (e.g., impacts of physical distancing). |
| Question 2 | What makes for a good (and a bad) interaction during a walk in your neighbourhood? Can you think of a story of an interaction on one of your walks that stands out? Thinking about your neighbourhood walks, talk to me about your interactions with the various kinds of people. How do they contribute to your neighbourhood walking experience? What else, if anything, do they contribute to? |
| Question 3 | How do you make sense of your walking diary entries? What did this exercise reveal about neighbourhood walking to you? Drawing on your walking diary, can you elaborate on, People you encountered, but did not interact with? The people you encountered and interacted with? The person/people/dog(s) you walked with? What happens when you’re walking with others? |
| Question 4 | How do you make sense of your map? What did the mapping exercise reveal about neighbourhood walking to you? Drawing on your mapping exercise, can you elaborate on the kinds of people you encounter (i.e., friends and family, acquaintances, familiar strangers, nodding relationships)? |
| Question 5 | How important, if at all, is connecting with others during your neighbourhood walks? Are there people you avoid or have negative interactions with during your walks? Please expand. |
| Question 6 | In what ways, if any, has neighbourhood walking strengthened your connection to the people you encounter while walking? Can you tell me a story of a relationship you have with someone that was strengthened because of neighbourhood walking? |
| Question 7 | In what ways, if any, have the relationships you developed while walking in your neighbourhood enabled you to draw on neighbours for help or support? |
| Question 8 | What did this study tell you about your experiences walking in your neighbourhood? |
| Question 9 | Is there anything else you would like to add? |