Table 2 Overview of themes and main results by clients and health care professionals
Theme | Subtheme | Clients | Healthcare professionals |
|---|---|---|---|
1) Positive appraisal of the SMILE intervention | Clients enjoyed participating in the SMILE intervention | Clients perceived the intervention as useful, motivating and enjoyable. Clients had positive experiences with HCPs involved with SMILE. | Not applicable |
HCPs enjoyed conducting the SMILE intervention | Not applicable | HCPs enjoyed conducting the intervention and seeing positive results in clients. | |
2) Suggestions for improvement of the SMILE intervention | Tailoring the SMILE intervention to people with SMI | Not applicable | HCPs find the intervention suitable and interesting for all people with SMI. However, tailoring for the individual characteristics of patients is needed. |
No consensus on frequency of sessions of the SMILE intervention | Transition from weekly to monthly sessions is too big, however monthly sessions can have some benefits. | Believe transition from weekly to monthly sessions is too big, however workload was better during monthly sessions. | |
3) Facilitators of implementation | User-friendly handbook | Not applicable | Handbook was user friendly and provided detailed information which supported HCPs in conducting the intervention. |
Training of HCPs | Not applicable | Information regarding nutrition and other lifestyle related subjects were found important to learn during training. | |
4) Barriers of implementation | SMILE in combination with usual work | Not applicable | It was difficult to combine the SMILE activities with daily tasks. In order to conduct the intervention it is needed for (at least) two HCPs to be involved with SMILE in order to align work activities between HCPs. More time is needed to conduct the intervention. |
Lack of team and management support during implementation | A change in HCPs had a negative influence on the cohesion within the group. | In most teams HCPs felt no support from their other team members. They feel SMILE should be more of a priority within teams or management. A shortage of staff in general had a negative influence on the workload of HCPs during the delivery of SMILE. |