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Table 4 Theme of ‘negotiation and flexibility’ and verbatim examples

From: Barriers to and facilitators of implementing complex workplace dietary interventions: process evaluation results of a cluster controlled trial

Theme

Verbatim Examples

Negotiation and flexibility

1. Flexibility: “You need to adapt and be understanding because schedules do change so you go in with your full schedule and you mightn’t get all of them or people last minute can’t make it and you’re getting annoyed when you’re there on site waiting but out on site things are changing constantly so you really have to adapt”. (Researcher 2 - follow-up stage)

2. Negotiation: “Changing down to nearly half, we just couldn’t, there would be uproar…we did a taste test, we put three plates out one with what we serve now, one with what UCC wanted us to serve and something somewhere in the middle that we felt we could serve and get away with, that’s the way we made our choice” (Occupational health, combined intervention site baseline stage).

“The breakfast option alright was something that you couldn’t change too much. I suppose from their side they were just afraid that there would be a lot of backlash from the employees and there at the front line then dealing with it” (Researcher 2 - follow-up stage)

3. High-level workplace management support: “I found it very, very hard to get product builders released for their sessions. That was a huge struggle for me, it’s the team leaders and they’re all about their metrics, they want to have, net efficiencies, be on target” (Occupational Health—nutrition education site—follow-up stage).