Table 3.

Sampling framework for interviews

Inclusion criteria	Rationale
Parents/caregivers of children enrolled into the PIES Study	To be able to compare experiences with quantitative data from the survey
Mothers and fathers	To obtain experiences of both mothers and fathers
Emergency and planned admission	To obtain experiences of parents/caregivers dealing with both planned and emergency admission as there are often psychological sequelae associated with emergency versus planned admissions to PICU51
Age of child: ≤6 months (or pre-weaned babies) >6 months–1 year >1–2 years >2–4 years	To obtain differing experiences of feeding during significant developmental feeding milestones for example weaning versus autonomous child self-feeding during preschool years53

PICU, paediatric intensive care unit; PIES Study, feeding and survivorship outcomes in previously healthy young Paediatric IntensivE care Survivors.