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Table 1 Overview of categories identified by workshop participants

From: Investigating preferences for support with life after stroke: a discrete choice experiment

Category

Dimensions

Travel to services

Availability of transport; accessibility of home; ease of transport mode; convenience; personal meaning (e.g. ambulances and illness); journey comfort; journey time

Adaptations to home

Waiting time

Therapy and support

Pro-active/reactive; timing; emotional content; variability; continuity

Information

Mode; source; timing

Service delivery

Peer support; one to one support/group support; family engagement; physical access to services

Family support

Patients as family carers; differences in the purpose of family support

Social aspects

Leisure activities/work support

Follow-up assessment

Prior experience of services; service provider; service proximity; responsiveness

Language sensitivity

Choice; ease when concordant; understanding; emergency contexts;

therapeutic elements

  1. Categories in bold taken forward for consideration of levels, and use in DCE.
  2. For further detail of attribute and dimensions, together with exemplar quotations from workshops, please see Additional file 1.