Table 4.
Main themes and categories
| Theme | Category | Subcategory |
|---|---|---|
| Current status | Self-management tasks | Nutrition/ Diet |
| Training | ||
| Medication | ||
| Information/ Keeping up-to date | ||
| Social exchange | ||
| Responsibility | ||
| Coping with multimorbidity | ||
| Self-management support | Motivation | |
| Recommendations | ||
| Exchange with physicians and practice assistants | ||
| Rehabilitation services | ||
| Organisational aspects | ||
| Challenges | Multimorbidity and its challenges | Pain |
| Loneliness/ lack of social networks | ||
| Loss of independence | ||
| Changing habits/ lifestyle change | ||
| Treatment burden | ||
| Mobility restrictions | ||
| Being a burden for family/friends | ||
| Challenges for practitioners | Allocation of time and resources | |
| Strategies for motivation | ||
| Further support | Concerns expressed from patients | Support for specific problems |
| Support for general problems | ||
| Concerns expressed from practitioners | Public transport | |
| Support of relatives | ||
| Government support | ||
| Social medicine |