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Table 1 Semi-structured interview questions

From: Comparisons on factors affecting residents fulfilling self-determination in ethno-specific and mainstream nursing homes: a qualitative study

1. Can you please tell me the country where you were born?

2. Did you have regular contact with ethnical or/and religious community organisations before moving into the care home?

 a. What has changed about your contacts with ethnical or/and religious community organisations since you moved into the care home?

 b. What changes could be made so that you could maintain contact with ethnical or/and religious community organisations?

3. Please tell me the main food you had at home

 a. What has changed about what you eat since you came to the home?

 b. What changes could be made so that you could get the food you like to eat?

4. Please tell me your leisure activities and hobbies

 a. What has changed about what your leisure activities and hobbies since you came to the home?

 b. What changes could be made so that you could maintain activities and hobbies you still enjoy?

5. Do you have any preferences, likes and dislikes in everyday care that are related to your ethnical background, your culture and religious beliefs? If yes,

 a. Please tell me these preferences, likes and dislikes

 b. How do you let staff know and meet these preferences, likes and dislikes?

 c. What special considerations or/and actions do staff take to meet these preferences, likes and dislikes? Please give some examples

6. Have you experienced situations that your preferences, likes and dislikes in everyday care were not met? If yes, what do you do to let staff meet these preferences, likes and dislikes?

7. Have you experienced situations that your care needs are not met because you cannot speak English or cannot speak English well? If yes, what do you do to let staff understand and meet your care needs?

8. What are your wishes to control everyday care activities, for example to make decision and control what activities to be included; how to deliver those to you; and what time to deliver those to you?

 a. Have you discussed these wishes with staff?

 b. If yes, what do staff do to consider and meet your wishes?

9. When you are cared for by staff from other ethnic/cultural group, is it easy or difficult to let them understand and meet your care needs and preferences?

 a. If it is easy, please give some examples

 b. If it is difficult, what do you do to let the staff understand and meet your care needs and preferences?

10. When you are cared for by care staff from other ethnic/cultural group, have you experienced difficulties in understanding what the staff said to you?

 a. If yes, what helped you to understand them?

 b. What suggestions do you have for the care home to improve this situation?

11. If your relative has dementia, what do you do to help staff to understand and meet the care needs and preferences of your relative?