Informants | Sampling criteria | Recruitment | Interview setting | Informant characteristics | |
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STEP 2 STAKEHOLDERS (n = 17) (focus group interviews) | Urology nurses | Authority on and responsibility for referral of men with prostate cancer to rehabilitation, including assessment of rehabilitation needs | Personal email to the leader of the nursing team at the Copenhagen Prostate Cancer Center, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet | Nurses’ office, Department of Urology, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet | Five (n = 5) female nurses, including the team leader; participants had from 7 months to 12 years’ experience working with men with prostate cancer |
Soccer coaches | Experience with non-professional soccer coaching and/or management of a local soccer club | Email invitation distributed via the Danish Football Association to secretaries and/or non-professional coaches of local soccer clubs in the Copenhagen area | Common room, local soccer club in the Copenhagen area | Five (n = 5) volunteers (31–69 years of age) from two different soccer clubs, including one female club president and four non-professional male coaches | |
Prostate cancer patients | Personal experience with prostate cancer regardless of treatment status, disease status and previous soccer experience | Verbal invitation to patients participating in a hospital-based patient education at Frederiksberg Hospital and written invitation distributed via email to members of the Danish Prostate Cancer Patient Association | Office, Health Research Department, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet | Seven (n = 7) men with prostate cancer (time since diagnosis: 4 months to 5 years); five of the men (56–71 years of age) had played soccer previously while two had no prior soccer experience |