Table 1 Interview guide
Question | Prompt |
|---|---|
Can you tell me a bit about your health condition and why you were referred to the cardio-oncology clinic? | What was the reason for your referral to the cardio-oncology clinic? Did you understand why you were being referred? |
How did you respond to your doctor’s recommendation that your attend the cardio-oncology clinic? | How do you feel about this? Expand E.g. worried, anxious, confused? Were you overwhelmed at the thought of seeing another specialist? Expand |
What was it like to realise you had more than one disease that needed medical attention? | Expand? What did you do? Emotions Decision making Prioritising Doing what was asked by 2 different doctors |
What has been your experience of the cardio-oncology clinic? | Did you understand what was happening? Did you understand the connection with your cancer? How did that make you feel? Was it hard to follow the advice of 2 doctors? What would suggest to improve the service? |
Do you have any other needs that you feel are not being addressed because of your cancer or heart disease? | How did treatment affect your life eg education, family, work, etc.?” What would have helped? |
If you could change one thing about the healthcare services you received, what would it be? | |
Do you have any further comments |