Table 2.

Interview topic guide

Warming-up: When you think about health and social care professionals in a general way, how would you describe these professionals?

Central Questions

A. Relational and communicational aspects When you think about the meetings you have had with health and social care professionals, how would you describe this experience in terms of:  The ways professionals relate with you?  The ways professionals communicate with you? (Ask for positive/negative experiences if interviewee only focus on one aspect spontaneously) (These questions can be related with or in sequence to some episodes mentioned before)

B. Self-management in daily life Now please think about your everyday life. How do you make decisions about issues that are relevant to you? (Activities of daily life and health) (Ask about the role/action of health and social care professionals in this area if not mentioned spontaneously)

Closing questions: If you think about your present and future what do you expect from health and social care professionals? If you think about the education of future health and social care professionals who will work with people like you, which aspects would you value the most in their university studies? How would you describe the ideal health professional? How would you describe the ideal social care professional?