Table 8.

Expectations of the Balance on the Brain

Sub-themes	Intervention participant (person living with MCI), MISP, and PT quotes
Unexpected program content	In a way. It’s certainly a lot more active than I thought it would be, but I had no idea what it was going to be (ID63)
	I find it hard to say because I didn’t know what I was getting into in the beginning when I first started off. But I suppose, well, it’s been an advantage, put it that way. There hasn’t been a negative in it (ID22)
	I think that it wasn’t quite what I was expecting. I first got into it because of my memory and I thought that it would be something more based on memory things rather than exercise. But, I suppose, you’ve got to be using your brain to exercise (ID32)
	Well, obviously, I’m not involved in that area. So I don’t know how it all works with brain cognition and all the rest of it. But I wasn’t expecting exercise and I don’t think Mom was when she went into it either. So it was just a bit. Okay. Right, because I still don’t understand how that (ID16MISP)
	I think a lot of them didn’t realise that exercises on a regular basis were involved in the programme. So you would come and say I’m your physio; we’d go through some exercises; I want you to do them on a regular basis if possible and the ones that are important. I think over time they realised that actually they have to do something; they have to continue with something; they have to stick to something. And I think a lot of people didn’t realise what was involved in it (PT1)