Table 5.
Intervention participant (person living with MCI) and PT identified facilitators to the balance yourself intervention
| Sub-themes | Intervention participant (person living with MCI) quotes |
|---|---|
| Motivation | Yes, well, the motivation was to see that I’m on track with my balance (ID34) |
| Oh, I know the results. I’m motivated to do them. I’m making myself be less frustrated with myself because the worst thing for poor balance for me is that, I don’t know, maybe I’m competitive (ID65) | |
| Felt improvement | Because I felt good. I felt good and I thought oh, I can do another one of those so yeah (ID63) |
| Um, there’s a sense of achievement and you can see benefits and that keeps you going (ID75) | |
| Easy to complete | It was fine, yeah, yeah, you could follow it through, yes, yes, and some of them I could do quite well and moved on (ID10) |
| They’re not stressful; they are quite pleasant and easy to do, yeah (ID60) | |
| Became routine easily | Yes, just get out of bed and do it first thing in the morning, or if I left it to further on through the day, the mind would click in and say you’ve got exercises to do, and it would go through my brain until I did it (ID16) |
| Again, it was part of me trying to develop new routines in my life and make something work (ID55) | |
| Enjoyed it | I really was challenged, and I enjoyed them (ID08) |
| Yes, yes, because it is easy, I’ve liked it all. I do things that pop up in my head and I’ll do that straight away because I remember (ID84) |
| Sub-themes | PT quotes |
|---|---|
| Initial exercises easy to achieve | Yeah, I think this one was similar across the whole board. I thought that everyone found up to number 14 easy. So we could always fly through those first 14 and then at the heel-toe one, number 15 (PT3) |
| Sub-themes | Intervention participant (person living with MCI) and PT quotes |
|---|---|
| Guidance from PT | If you live on your own it’s more difficult, you know, you’ve got to work harder on yourself and to have a voice or a person call it gives you motivation (ID01) |
| Oh yes, and with the physios coming to your house and going through it with you, you know, that is a really big part of it because if you hadn’t done your exercises one day you’d think oh, no! (ID15) | |
| It was great in that you had all that time to really practice all of them and really get how that concept worked and then they get a picture and show the head position (PT3) | |
| I found engaging them if they were enjoying outdoor walking, then I just used some of those more dynamic balance tasks and added them to their walking program (PT2) | |
| The physical book | It talks about where to place your feet and how to do exercises against the sink or whatever, which is quite useful, and I have a tendency to do that (ID01) |
| Very handy. It was good to have something to be able to refer to if your memory is not as good as it used to be so it’s very handy (ID60) | |
| I have one lady at the moment who is very, very engaged and loves the Balance Book exercises, so every now and then you get one. So that’s nice (PT2) | |
| Yeah, some loved having a hard copy. Something they can flick through, some really liked that (PT3) | |
| I think it was relatively easy to deliver the exercises in the book for me as a person (PT4) |