No. Item	Guide questions/description	Reported on Page #
Domain 1: Research team and reflexivity
Personal characteristics
1. Inter viewer/facilitator	Which author/s conducted the interview or focus group?	Methods page 5
2. Credentials	What were the researcher's credentials? E.g. PhD, MD	Title page
3. Occupation	What was their occupation at the time of the study?	Title page
4. Gender	Was the researcher male or female?	Female, title page
5. Experience and training	What experience or training did the researcher have?	N/A
Relationship with participants
6. Relationship established	Was a relationship established prior to study commencement?	Methods page 5
7. Participant knowledge of the interviewer	What did the participants know about the researcher? e.g. personal goals, reasons for doing the research	Methods page 5
8. Interviewer characteristics	What characteristics were reported about the inter viewer/facilitator? e.g. Bias, assumptions, reasons and interests in the research topic	Methods page 5 Limitation page 14
Domain 2: study design
Theoretical framework
9. Methodological orientation and Theory	What methodological orientation was stated to underpin the study? e.g. grounded theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, phenomenology, content analysis	Methods page 4‐6
Participant selection
10. Sampling	How were participants selected? e.g. purposive, convenience, consecutive, snowball	Methods page 5
11. Method of approach	How were participants approached? e.g. face‐to‐face, telephone, mail, email	Methods page 5
12. Sample size	How many participants were in the study?	Methods page 5
13. Non‐participation	How many people refused to participate or dropped out? Reasons?	Methods page 5
Setting
14. Setting of data collection	Where was the data collected? e.g. home, clinic, workplace	Methods page 5
15. Presence of non‐participants	Was anyone else present besides the participants and researchers?	Methods page 5
16. Description of sample	What are the important characteristics of the sample? e.g. demographic data, date	Methods page 5 Table 1
Data collection
17. Interview guide	Were questions, prompts, guides provided by the authors? Was it pilot tested?	Methods page 5
18. Repeat interviews	Were repeat interviews carried out? If yes, how many?	N/A
19. Audio/visual recording	Did the research use audio or visual recording to collect the data?	Methods page 5
20. Field notes	Were field notes made during and/or after the interview or focus group?	Methods page 5
21. Duration	What was the duration of the inter views or focus group?	Methods page 5
22. Data saturation	Was data saturation discussed?	Limitation 14
23. Transcripts returned	Were transcripts returned to participants for comment and/or correction?	Methods page 5
Domain 3: analysis and findings
Data analysis
24. Number of data coders	How many data coders coded the data?	Results page 7
25. Description of the coding tree	Did authors provide a description of the coding tree?	Results page 7
26. Derivation of themes	Were themes identified in advance or derived from the data?	Methods page 5‐6
27. Software	What software, if applicable, was used to manage the data?	N/A
28. Participant checking	Did participants provide feedback on the findings?	Methods page 6
Reporting
29. Quotations presented	Were participant quotations presented to illustrate the themes/findings? Was each quotation identified? e.g. participant number	Results page 7‐10
30. Data and findings consistent	Was there consistency between the data presented and the findings?	Results page 7‐10
31. Clarity of major themes	Were major themes clearly presented in the findings?	Results page 7‐10
32. Clarity of minor themes	Is there a description of diverse cases or discussion of minor themes?	Discussion page 10‐14