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Table 1 Characteristics of stakeholders involved in Step 5a: acceptability of the intervention

From: The BOOST paediatric advance care planning intervention for adolescents with cancer and their parents: development, acceptability and feasibility

Participants

Adolescents and young adults

Parents

Healthcare professionals

Gender

 Male

2

1

-

 Female

2

5

9

Agea

Mean (SD); range

19.25 (2.86); 16 – 23

  

  < 30 years old

-

-

2

 30 – 39 years old

-

1

1

 40 – 49 years old

-

5

1

  > 50 years old

-

-

5

Time since diagnosis

  < 1 year ago

1

-

-

  > 3 years ago

3

-

-

Highest education

 Lower secondary education

-

1

-

 Higher secondary education

-

2

-

 Graduate

-

1

-

 Bachelor

-

2

2

 Master

-

-

7

Family situation

 Married/living together

-

5

-

 Single parent/unmarried

-

1

-

Provider type

 Paediatric oncologist

-

-

2

 Clinical remedial educationalist

-

-

1

 Clinical psychologist

-

-

4

 Specialist in palliative care at home

-

-

2

Work experience within field of paediatric oncology

  < 5 years

-

-

4

 5–10 years

-

-

1

 11 – 20 years

-

-

1

  > 20 years

-

-

3

  1. Values are numbers
  2. aAge categories are not applicable to young adults and adolescents as they were all younger than 23