Table 2.

Researcher characteristics

Member (Credentials)	Occupation at time of study	Gender	Experience and training	Relationship to interviewees
HWYW (Undertaking - BMed MD (Hons))	Medical Student	Male	Qualitative research workshop	No prior relationship to interviewees. Introduced to topic by supervisor (MF)
KC (PhD)	Research scientist	Female	10 years experience in scientific research	Previous interactions with some participants due to other research studies.
AD (MPhil)	Research Scientist	Female	5 years experience in scientific research, first qualitative research study	No prior relationship to interviewees. Introduced to topic by supervisor (MF)
NK (BA, PhD, MAPS)	Associate Professor (UNSW), Head of Psychology (Heart Centre for Children)	Female	15 years experience in clinical and research psychology	No prior relationship to interviewees.
MF (MBBS (Hons), FRACP, PhD)	Paediatric Neurologist and Associate Professor (UNSW)	Female	10 years experience in research, 15 years experience in child neurology	Previous interactions with some participants due to other research studies. Paediatric neurologist for 1 participant > 5 years ago prior to transition