Table 2.

Saturation grid of themes and subthemes represented in focus groups

Themes and subthemes	Mayo Clinic focus groups		Hennepin County Medical Center focus groups
	Group 1 (n=5)	Group 2 (n=7)	Group 3 (n=8)	Group 4 (n=5)
Theme 1: work patients must do to care for their health	x	x	x	x
– Learn about conditions and care	x	x	x	x
– Taking medications	x	x	x	x
– Medical appointments	x	x	x	x
– Monitoring health	x	x	x	x
– Health behaviors	x	x	x	x
– Medical equipment/devices	x
Theme 2: challenges/stressors that exacerbate felt burden	x	x	x	x
– Challenges with taking medication	x	x	x	x
– Interpersonal challenges	x	x	x	x
– Financial challenges	x	x	x	x
– Confusion about medical information	x	x	x	x
– Barriers to self-care	x	x	x	x
– Health care provider obstacles (individual provider)	x	x	x	x
– Health care provider obstacles (system issues)	x	x	x	x
Theme 3: impacts of burden	x	x	x	x
– Role/social activity limitations	x	x	x	x
– Physical/mental exhaustion of self-care	x	x	x	x

Note: x indicates theme observed.