Table 2.
Baseline interview guide
| How would you describe your current state of health? What are the conditions you have? Which one if any has priority at the moment in terms of having to manage it? |
| When did you start to have contact with health services about this? |
| How does having your condition affect your life on a day‐to‐day basis? |
| How do you manage NOW on a day‐to‐day basis with your condition? |
| Have you had to make any changes to your lifestyle and your diet? |
| What do you currently do when your symptoms get worse? |
| Starting from when you first thought something was wrong can you tell me how you have responded to your illness and what sort of adjustments you have had to make to your life and what you do on a daily basis? |
| Are there things that other people tell you should be doing but you do not do? What are these things and how do you feel about other people telling you these things? |
| Have you used any information concerning your condition? |
| Do you speak to the pharmacist at all about medication for long‐term conditions? |
| Contact with voluntary organizations concerned with your condition? |
| Who in your family or circle of friends locally do you talk to about your illness? When and what do you talk about? |
| Are there occasions when you prefer not to talk to people and keep things to yourself and if so why? |
| What things in your neighbourhood make it easier to manage having a long‐term condition and what things make it difficult? |
| What sorts of contact with people (your family and friends, neighbours, local people) make things easier in managing a long‐term condition and what makes things more difficult for you? |
| How long have you lived in the area? |
| Could you describe your neighbourhood to someone who was not from the area? |
| Do you feel part of a community? |
| Do you get on with/look out for your neighbours and vice versa? |
| Would you say you know most of the people in your neighbourhood? |
| Does anyone help you? If so in what ways? |
| How many times in the past 2 weeks have friends or family visited you or you visited them? |
| Who have you talked to about your health? |