Table 1.
Focus Group Agenda
| Yoga class experience |
| 1. In one word or phrase describe your experience with the yoga program. |
| 2. Please describe your experience with yoga: Probe for postures, breathing exercise, meditation |
| 3. Please describe your experience with the postures: Probe for: specific postures, experience of maintaining the posture and breathing into it, comfort with specific pose(s), with which they felt most/least comfortable, how comfortable or complex each was over time course, which postures are still being practiced; capture rationale for each, after how many classes did they feel comfortable with postures |
| 4. How did you feel after a yoga class? Probe for: effects on body, when did they realize the effects, how long do the effects last, poses associated with those effects, difference in the body since starting the program. |
| 5. What motivated you to practice yoga? describe. |
| 6. What prevented you or discouraged you from yoga practice? Describe |
| Effect of yoga on stress and diabetes management |
| 1. Tell me how your health is different since being in the program, if at all. Probe for: attributions of the effect being related to yoga experience. |
| 2. What physical changes, if any, have you experienced? |
| 3. What emotional changes, if any, have you experienced as a result of the yoga classes? Probe for: stress level/stress reduction or an increase in stress, other emotions. |
| 4. Are you doing anything else differently since starting yoga? Probe for: exercise, eating differently, medication adherence. |
| 5. Have there been any other effects of yoga? |
| 6. During class yoga instructor talked about awareness of the body during yoga. They may have asked you to pay attention to the 4 corners of the feet or to the ‘back body’ during poses. What did you think of those instructions? Probe for: awareness of body, awareness of lifestyle/behaviors. |
| 7. Tell me how your yoga practice has had an impact on your health. Probe for: effect on diabetes, or any co-existing condition |
| Yoga maintenance |
| 1. Did you do any yoga at home or anywhere else other than study center during the 12 weeks of classes? If yes, where, when, how? Probe for: home practice, other studio |
| 2. Are you currently practicing yoga? |
| 3. Do you plan to continue yoga? If yes, probe for: where, when how. If not, why not? |
| Program evaluation and conclusion |
| 1. What did you like most about the program? |
| 2. What did you like least about the program? |
| 3. Is there anything else about your experience that we should know? |