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Table 2 Sensitising questions (structured by Normalisation Process Theory constructs) that informed the coding framework

From: Using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) to develop an intervention to improve referral and uptake rates for self-management education for patients with type 2 diabetes in UK primary care

Construct

Interview transcripts coded against these questionsa

Full text articles coded against these questionsa

Coherence

What are individuals’ attitudes to self-management and SSME?

Is it different from other interventions?

What is the potential value, benefit and/or importance of SSME?

What enables understanding and differentiation of the intervention?

What are the barriers to understanding and differentiation of the intervention?

Cognitive Participation

What are the barriers to self-management?

What are the barriers to uptake of SSME?

What is their motivation for participating?

What enables individuals and groups to engage with the intervention?

What inhibits individuals and groups from engaging with the intervention?

Collective Action

Are the right people running it with the right skills?

Do individuals trust the intervention to work?

How do people make it work? How does it work?

Is it supported by management, policy and/or resources?

What helps individuals and groups to undertake the work of the intervention?

What are the barriers to individuals and groups undertaking the work of the intervention?

Reflexive Monitoring

Have individuals made changes as a result of it?

How do they know it works?

Have they any suggestions for improving it?

What enables individuals and groups in understanding and evaluating the work of the intervention?

What inhibits individuals and groups from understanding and evaluating the work of the intervention?

  1. a Questions informed by May and Finch [21]