Table 2. Interview schedule.

Interview Schedule Topics

• Knowledge of BV

• Prior experience of BV

• Impact of BV on self, partner and relationship

• BV as an STI

• STI experience and attitudes

• Reasons for participation in the trial

• Experience of study and treatment

• Reasons they or other men would decline treatment and/or the trial

• How would they like to receive information about BV

Revised during data collection to include further questions about:

• Impact of uncertainty of “having the infection”

• Symptoms in men