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Table 1 The guide for semi-structured interviews

From: Patients’ experiences of using a mobile application-based rehabilitation programme after total hip or knee arthroplasty: a qualitative descriptive study

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Questions and probes

1

What is your experience of using the mobile app-based rehabilitation programme?

Probe: What features or aspects of the programme do you like/dislike? Could you please tell me the reason for your decision?

2

How do you feel that the mobile app-based rehabilitation programme supports your rehabilitation exercises?

Probe: Did the programme change your behaviour related to rehabilitation exercises? Could you please provide any detailed explanations or examples?

3

Apart from rehabilitation exercises, are there any other benefits that you experienced during the use of this programme?

Probe: Did this programme affect you in other ways during your recovery?

4

Have you seen any problems, weaknesses, or disadvantages of the mobile app-based rehabilitation programme?

Probe: Was it easy to use? Did you have any difficulty using the programme?

5

Are you willing to recommend this programme to your relatives, friends, or neighbours? Why?

6

What suggestions do you have for future improvement of the mobile app-based rehabilitation programme?

Probe: How can the programme be improved further so that it would be more useful to you and other patients with the same surgery?