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Table 1 Summary of interview topics

From: Exploring the views of stakeholders about the feasibility of carrying out a randomised controlled trial of Individual Placement and Support for people unemployed with chronic pain based in primary care (the InSTEP study)

Clients

Employment Support Workers

Healthcare professionals

• Experience of IPS (e.g. Can you tell me about the programme?)

• Research on IPS (e.g. What would be important when planning a trial for similar support programme ?)

• Recruitment (e.g. How did you get to be involved in the programme?)

• Outcomes of IPS (e.g. What do you think you have got out of the programme?)

• Experience of IPS (e.g. Can you tell me about your role in the programme?)

• Research on IPS (e.g. What would be important when planning a trial for similar support programme ?)

• Recruitment (e.g. What do you think makes people decide to take part?)

• Integration with pain services (e.g. What support do you think you need to work with existing services?)

• Outcome of IPS (e.g. What do you think clients get out of the programme?)

• Barriers (e.g. Can you identify any issues when planning a new trial for patients with chronic pain?)

• Recruitment (e.g. What are your thoughts on identifying and recruiting patients with chronic pain who are unemployed?)

• Outcomes of IPS (e.g. Do you think this programme might be beneficial to patients?)

• Integration of IPS with pain services (e.g. How could IPS work with primary care and existing services?)

• Control intervention (e.g. What do you think about this being an RCT with a control group?)