TABLE 4.

Qualitative interview results (n=10)

Selected Themes	Representative quotations
Positive sentiment
Increased awareness	I didn’t even realize that I was at risk for heart stuff because of [what] I’ve been through. And so, I think it was great to be made aware of that.
Lifestyle change	I’m trying to be more active than I was before, I’m trying to really watch, monitor, my health, trying to get better, knowing that there is some heart related issues with what I went through now. I have on my own been tracking everything I eat because I noticed I’d think about it more, then I would eat better when I was doing that.
Facilitators
Altruism	Any way we can help further the cause of cancer research is good.
Improving own health	Seeing kind of where my fitness level was at after all the treatments and if there’s things I can be doing to make my lifestyle healthier.
Study materials and information	I think it was very straight forward and there was an ability to ask questions if you needed more information.
Feedback & motivation from intervention	I would give like 4 out of 5 stars, because I feel like it does a great job obviously of tracking your daily habits and things like that. When you track everything it kind of gives you a scorecard on how you’re doing, so then I would try to figure out what it would take to get some of the numbers higher. Because you realize that there’s other people that went through the same things that you went through when you were sick.
Barriers
Action plan goals not always helpful	I did not find the phone sessions particularly helpful. I did like the fact that we made some commitments to a certain amount of exercise on a weekly basis, but I don’t know that they affected or changed my behavior much.
Incorporating feedback into daily life	Between my work and activities and kids, I didn’t have the time… it was a very time-consuming piece where I kind of failed on keeping up with it.
Difficulty with apps	[Healthwatch360] seemed to be more geared to somebody that ate a lot of fast food or processed food….It was a little bit harder to find generic meals you might make at home and, and find a close equivalent to that on the app. After a couple of months I was just kind of bored with it and tired of wearing it.
Remembering to use apps	I had a really hard time of remembering… I would go, like a week… forget all about it.
Proposals for improvement
More frequent check-ins	Follow-up at an earlier time, especially when you’re not progressing… would have been more beneficial Maybe more telephone… just have a quick 10-minute check-in at least once a month.
More training on apps	If you had an interviewer sit down and go over all the functions… show them how to use it on their phone… I think you’d get people using it more.