Table 1 Topic guide for semi-structured interviews
Topic | Patient-participants | Expert-participants |
|---|---|---|
Personal background information | Personal circumstances and social networks (within prison and relationships with outside) | Motivation to work with incarcerated persons, brief description of their work experience and current roles and responsibilities |
Aging in the prison context | Relationships with younger persons in detention, satisfaction with work and free time activities offered, perception of prison environment, future plans | Aging in the prison context: exploration of their experiences in working with older patients, prominent therapy topics of older patients |
Access to and quality of mental health care | Types of interventions, frequency and duration of treatments, opinion on access to and quality of mental health care, specific aspects of the interventions that helped/impeded therapy progress, perception of their current mental well-being, questions on possible stigma due to mental health issues | Characteristics of care and interaction with older patients, experiences with specific influences due to working in secure contexts (indefinite release dates, dual role conflict—use of elicitation technique, collaboration with other professions and representatives of the justice system) |
Risk assessment | Perception of evaluations by forensic experts, experiences with the procedures | Experiences in reporting to the authorities (characteristics, procedures, age as a variable in risk assessments, key criteria in reporting standards) |