Questions used for semistructured interview
| Participants will be given sufficient time to complete the pre-final German USE-MS. | |
| 1. | Having read the questions in the questionnaire, what are your thoughts about them? |
| 2. | Would you please repeat this question in your own words? |
| 3. | What do you think this question is asking? |
| 4. | What do you think about that particular question? |
| 5. | What do you think about the wording of this question, in terms of its clarity? |
| 6. | How easy or hard was this to answer? |
| 7. | How sure are you of your answer? |
| 8. | Could you talk me through your answers in more detail? |
| 9. | What were you thinking of when you answered this question? |
| 10. | Do you have any other comments? |
| 11. | If responses from participants are somewhat unclear, the interviewer asks, ‘Why so?’ |
| 12. | Should a participant hesitate, the interviewer conveys, ‘You spent some time answering that question—what were you thinking about?’ |
Adapted from Reducing Survey Error through Research on the Cognitive and Decision Processes in Surveys54 and Olsson et al.98
USE-MS, Unidimensional Self-Efficacy Scale for Multiple Sclerosis.