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Table 2 Select examples of open-ended questions from the youth interview guides. Questions for caregivers were modified to reflect their perspectives

From: Residential immersive life skills programs for youth with disabilities: a case study of youth developmental trajectories of personal growth and caregiver perspectives

Timepoint

Youth

Pre-TIP

I’d like to know a bit about how you decided to take part in TIP?

How did you hear about it?

Why did you think it might be a good program to take part in?

What was the main reason you applied to TIP?

Did you make the decision on your own or with other people?

Why do you think Mom/Dad/Other wanted you to take part (if appropriate)?

What do you hope you to get from attending TIP?

What do you think will happen in the program?

Are there things you are most excited about?

Are there things you are worried about?

What do you think will be the most challenging part of the program? What do you think will be the easiest part of the program?

What do you think a successful TIP experience will look like?

What would you like to happen during TIP?

What would have to happen (or what would you have to learn) during TIP for it to be a really good experience?

What do you think your Mom/Dad/Other want you to gain out of attending TIP?

Post-TIP and Follow-up-TIP

Tell me about your experience of taking part in TIP?

What was your greatest success? What was your greatest challenge?

What were the most difficult parts? What were the easiest parts?

What was the outcome in terms of the goals you set at the beginning of the program and your plans for the future?

Do you think TIP influenced you?

Tell me about a story – good or bad – that show how TIP affected you?

For each story:

What did you realize? When did you realize it? How did you realize it?

Is that something you could have done before the program?

What was it about the program that made the difference?

Tell me about what happened when you got home?

Did anything change about your expectations of yourself? Others?

Did other people have different expectations of you?

Is there something you are now doing that you didn’t do before you took part?

Is there something you are going to try (or have already tried) for the first time? How easy or difficult do you think it will be to keep doing these things?

Thinking about the program and the things you are doing now, would you do anything differently during the program if you could do it again?

After the program? Is there anything that you wished you could have practiced or learned?

What do you think is the most important thing you learned at TIP? About yourself? About others? Why do you think so?

If you had a chance to do the program over again, would you? Why or why not?