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Table 1 Sample characteristics

From: Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands

Nr.

Discipline

Experience with SBDs

1

Service user and peer expert

Has had an SBD for 12 years

2

Service user

Has had an SBD for 1 year

3

Service user and peer expert

Has had an SBD for several years

4

Service user

Has had an SBD since recently

5

Service user

Has had an SBD for 13 years

6

Service user

Has had an SBD for 6 months

7

Service user and peer expert

Has had an SBD for 1 year

8

Psychiatrist and medical director

Experience in reviewing and approving SBDs

9

Psychiatrist and medical director

Has drafted SBDs with 4 service users, the first of which 6 years ago

10

Psychiatrist and medical director

Experience in reviewing and approving SBDs

11

Psychiatrist

Has drafted SBDs with 4 service users

12

Psychiatrist

Has drafted an SBD with a service user 10 years ago

13

Psychiatrist

Has drafted SBDs with 2 service users

14

Psychiatrist

Has drafted an SBD with a service user and has experience with mental capacity assessment in the context of SBD completion

15

Psychiatrist

Has drafted multiple SBDs with service users

16

Nurse practitioner

Has drafted SBDs with several service users

17

Psychologist

Has treated several service users with an SBD

18

Psychologist

Has treated a service user with an SBD during and after hospital admission

19

Community mental health nurse

Has drafted an SBD with a service user 1 year ago

20

Clinical mental health nurse

Has drafted an SBD with a service user

21

Policy expert

Scientific and legal knowledge of SBDs