Table 1.

Interview Guide

Part 1: Feedback about checklist What are your reactions to the checklist? Was anything confusing? Did you understand the instructions? Was anything difficult? Do you have any suggestions about how to make the checklist simpler or less confusing? Did you understand what was being asked about each of the health concerns? Do you think any of the concerns could be dropped? Is anything missing? What about the response categories? Are the response categories straightforward? Too complicated? Better as yes or no? What do you think about the second activity? Did you understand the instructions? Is this activity helpful? Do you think it would be better to ask patients to identify the most important support role? Let’s look at the checklist again. What changes could we make to address your ideas?

Part 2: Medication concerns. How well do you understand the medications that you have been prescribed? How well do the two of you communication about medications? Do you talk to each other about questions and concerns that you may have about medications? Are there times that you do NOT talk with each other about your medication-related concerns? Tell me about that. Do the two of you ever disagree about medications? Tell me about that. (Do you disagree all the time or only under certain circumstances or about certain drugs – do you have more disagreement about taking the medications or making decisions about what to take?) Do you talk to the doctor about your questions or concerns about medications? How well does that usually go? What do you think might improve these discussions? What could we change about the checklist to better address these medication concerns? Thinking more broadly about your primary care practice, is there anything the practice could do to help with these concerns or challenges? What is the most difficult part of arranging for, giving, and monitoring effects of medications? Have you ever had a medication emergency? Do you think it could have been avoided? Tell me about it.