Quotes from participants’ postsort interviews for each factor
| Quote reference | Quote | Participant |
|---|---|---|
| Consensus | ||
| Q1.1 | It's just the way the cookie crumbles isn't it? | P08 |
| Q1.2 | I suppose I am not really in that kind of (social) context. | P30 |
| Q1.3 | I can take stick as well as give it so it doesn't bother me. | P06 |
| Q1.4 | I would rather know what's wrong and be on top of it all the time. | P19 |
| Q1.5 | If I am going to be stopped doing things, fatigue is one of the things that will really stop me doing it, not joint pain, I can usually push through the joint pain. | P30 |
| Factor A | ||
| Q2.1 | There are things I know I can't do I mean that comes with the job like I say you can't kneel down […] I would hate to think you know that I couldn't just be independent. | P28 |
| Q2.2 | Well they [employer] are very good so any appointments they let me have the time off. | P26 |
| Q2.3 | I'm not proud. If I drop something and I can't bend down and pick it up, I will ask a stranger to do it, no problem at all. | P28 |
| Q2.4 | Financially I've worked hard all my life and I've put myself in a position, I don't have to worry about money. | P07 |
| Q2.5 | It is far easier to cope with it if you accept it and say I can’t do this and I can’t do that. | P16 |
| Q2.6 | It has been important to me just to be flexible, I think the attitude that really wouldn't work for me is to say I am going to fight this disease…I think to try and be as creative as possible about how you approach it is the way that things work best for me. | P30 |
| Q2.7 | It makes a massive difference to me, having a car because I can get around, I can do the shopping. Erm, and you know I can get around the shops and do what I want to do. | P06 |
| Q2.8 | I do try and walk every day. I have to walk every day, I have to keep going because I think eventually there will be a time when I won‘t be able to do these things | P16 |
| Q2.9 | The more you get angry, the more frustrated you get, the more annoyed you get. It's really only spoiling your day. | P8 |
| Q2.10 | I never saw the purpose of sort of jumping up and down and screaming, anger doesn't come into it. | P27 |
| Factor B | ||
| Q3.1 | I get angry because I am extremely fit, healthy, active lifestyle going from that down to hardly anything, you know still able to go out on my bike and go for a swim but just got to be at certain times. | P03 |
| Q3.2 | I do get frustrated more. I only get angry when I am on my own and can't do it. I'll throw something. | P14 |
| Q3.3 | When I say I get angry I don't get physically angry or scream and shout I get angry inside. | P22 |
| Q3.4 | I feel guilty now because I can't help the wife, like driving anything like that. | P14 |
| Q3.5 | I couldn't even throw a ball to my son…there is this sort of male bonding thing with your son I think that you want to play a few sort of semi rough games, and I couldn't do that so that was a big miss in my life. | P22 |
| Q3.6 | I know if I do little bits I will never get anything done so I push myself, make myself really sore. But at the end of it I can, even if I am collapsed in a chair I can look at what I have done, I am happy. | P29 |
| Q3.7 | I'm very pig-headed I'm afraid, no I don't do that [ask for help]. | P02 |
| Q3.8 | Well I tend to find I can't keep up with people. | P29 |
| Q3.9 | Body has changed a lot, it's got slower, uglier. | P14 |
| Q3.10 | I'm a real wreck man, really I am a wreck but that's because I'm bored and fat. | P02 |
| Q3.11 | I do sometimes avoid shaking hands with people if I can help it…But I usually meet the same people most of the time. | P13 |
| Q3.12 | It's sort of a hiding thing, trying to be a proper man or something or a proper person, able to do everything anyone else can do. | P22 |
| Q3.13 | I don't talk about it with my friends, they'd think I'd gone soft if I did…men don't cry you know this don't you? No we don't not in front of anybody you never would. | P02 |
| Q3.14 | I talk to anyone who can give me some help or information or anything like that, but I am not going to sit down and talk to a load of old men about what, how, you know I've got this and I've got that, I don't want to know. | P18 |
| Q3.15 | Well I've been coming here now for probably near 5 years and all the talk has been about medication. Err, in fact you [researcher] are the first person to talk about it, emotional support. | P17 |