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. 2018 Oct 26;5(4):e10801. doi: 10.2196/10801

Table 4.

Theme, categories, subcategories, and groups of participants.

Theme, categories, and subcategories Group of participants
Reinforcing existing support structures

Supportive and noninterfering


Handling the disease
  • People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their relatives



Applying evidence-based care
  • Health care professionals

  • Researchers



Fitting into the current routines
  • Health care professionals

  • People with COPD



Keeping control
  • Health care professionals

  • Researchers


Meaningful and urgent


Visualized messages that enable self-identification
  • Health care professionals

  • People with COPD and their relatives

  • Researchers



Easily accessible and distinct messages
  • Health care professionals

  • People with COPD and their relatives

  • Researchers



Creating engagement
  • Health care professionals

  • People with COPD

  • Researchers