Table 2 Topic guide in focus group interviews

Self-management support (SMS):

• What do you experience as beneficial help and support for the service users afflicted by overweight or obesity attending lifestyle interventions in the HLCs?

• What do you perceive as beneficial support for lifestyle change?

• How do the service users describe beneficial support?

• How do you promote self-management in the interventions?

• Can you describe how you work?

• What is important in the promotion of self-management and supporting lifestyle change?

User involvement:

• What do you understand by user involvement at the HLCs?

• What is important in the involvement of the service users?

• How do you involve the users in the intervention and in the process of change?

• What is the significance of user involvement?

• What do user involvement imply?