Qualitative interviews with a subset of the feasibility trial participants

Introduction: qualitative interviews were conducted to explore the process of taking part in the trial, to gain an understanding of participants’ perspectives on their allocated website and to encourage reflections on the pros and cons of different types of online health information.Methods: thirty of the trial participants took part in an interview within a few weeks of completing their follow up measures. The interviews were conducted in people’s homes, or at their workplace if they preferred, and were audio recorded and transcribed for thematic analysis.Findings: the interviews included perspectives on the process of the trial, which was acceptable and not burdensome to the participants (data are discussed in Chapter 8), and a discussion of a variety of different types of websites, prompted by laminated cards. The results were analysed in relation to the seven domains identified in the conceptual review. The relevance of …