Table 1.

Interview Questions

What were your expectations regarding the experience of being a massage therapist for a clinical trial? How were your expectations the same or different than the actual experience? How did you feel about giving a standardized massage session; i.e., following a prescribed protocol? How did it feel to give the light touch (placebo/sham) treatment to your participant? When giving the light touch treatment, how did it feel to not be able to tell your participant about the true nature of the intervention? What recommendations do you have for researchers who are planning future massage studies? What was your motivation or reason for working on a massage research study? What perceptions of the study were shared with you by your colleagues that were not working on the study? Any other comments or suggestions?