Table 2.

Qualitative interview schedule

A. Stress and coping in the care home

1 What do you think are the issues that cause you stress at work?

2 What sort of personal feelings do you have about working in a care home?

3 If you had any negative feelings, how would you have normally dealt with them?

4 Do you think that this was effective?

B. Experience of the Be Mindful course.

5 How did you feel about the course as a whole? (access, instructions, length of time taken, time negotiated with the manager to do the course)

6 What about the content of the course? Is there a specific type of practice that you feel benefited you most?

7 Did you personally feel any changes in your stress, anxiety or depression as a result of what you practiced or learned from the mindfulness course?

8 Do you think that this practice would help to reduce sickness/absence rates?

9 Are you still practicing some of the aspects you were taught on the course like mindfulness breathing?

10 Would you recommend this course or anything similar to colleagues or friends who were complaining of stress, anxiety or depression? If so why and if not, why not?

11 If you could change anything about the course, what would you suggest?

12 Is there anything else you would like to add?