Table 1.
Details about focus group participants and composition (n = 32).
Focus Group | Number of Vets | Male | Female | Predefined Criteria of Selection | Working Place (Federal State) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
|
Vienna |
2 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
|
Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Vorarlberg, Styria region |
3 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
|
Vienna, Lower Austria, Salzburg land, Vorarlberg |
4 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
|
Vienna |
5 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
|
Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Burgenland, Styria region |
6 | 5 | 3 | 21 |
|
Carinthia, Salzburg land, Tyrol, Vorarlberg region |
1 One of the female participants in Group 6 worked as a specialist at a referral clinic. She was wrongly invited to the focus group discussion among general practitioners due to the poorly maintained website which was accessed via the classified directory. This misclassification has been taken into consideration in the analysis and presentation of results in the present paper.