Table 1
Description, number and occupation/status of professional IHC project informants from municipalities, and data collection methods.
| Informants | |||
| Total number of interviews and focus groups n = 44 | |||
| IHC service providers | |||
| Total number n = 106* | |||
| General group description (total number) | Occupation | n | Data collection methods |
| Administrators and officials involved in implementation IHC (n = 20) | Administrators | 12 | In-depth individual interviews |
| Officials | 8 | ||
| Multidisciplinary teams from 10 regionally diverse pilot municipalities (n = 51*) | Social workers | 12 | 10 focus groups |
| Nurses | 11 | ||
| Physiotherapists | 7 | ||
| Social worker assistants | 11 | ||
| Nurse assistants | 10 | ||
| Front-line staff from 20 municipalities according disciplines (n = 59*) | Social workers | 20 | 4 focus groups |
| Nurses | 19 | 4 focus groups | |
| Social worker assistants | 9 | 4 focus groups | |
| Nurse assistants | 11 | ||
[i] *24 people participated both in the multidisciplinary and in the across the municipalities focus groups.
Table 2
Description of service receivers providing in-depth interviews.
| Informants | |||
| Total number of interviews n = 34 | |||
| IHC service receivers | |||
| Total number n = 34 | |||
| General group description | n | ||
| Family caregivers (n = 14) | Social status | Daughter/daughter-in-law | 9 |
| Mothers/fathers | 2 | ||
| Spouses | 3 | ||
| Gender | Female | 12 | |
| Male | 2 | ||
| Care receivers-patients (n = 20) | Age | 50–64 | 2 |
| 65–80 | 18 | ||
| Gender | Female | 18 | |
| Male | 2 | ||