Table 1.

Background data of the focus groups.

Focus group and characteristics		Patients with diabetesa (n=15)	Health care professionalsb (n=20)
Groups, n		4	4
Sex, n (%)
	Male	8 (53)	5 (25)
	Female	7 (47)	15 (75)
Diabetes type, n (%)			N/Ac
	Type 1	11 (73)
	Type 2	4 (27)
Profession, n (%)		N/A
	Diabetes specialist nurse		16 (80)
	Physician		4 (20)

^aAll except 1 patient (14/15, 93%) had answered 1 questionnaire before the focus group discussion.

^bIn total, 1465 questionnaire invitations were sent and 577 (39.39%) answered questionnaires were received before the focus group discussion.

^cN/A: not applicable.