Table 1 Patient focus group questions guide

1. What do you most value about the physical therapist?

2. What did you like the most about your relationship with the physical therapist?

 2.1 In which situations have you felt most comfortable with the physical therapist?

 2.2. In which situations have you felt uncomfortable with the physical therapist?

 2.3. Did the physical therapist appear the way he/she genuinely is? (the physical therapist was able to show his/her limitations, recognize errors, be natural…)

3. Which attitudes or behaviors of the physical therapist make you trust him/her?

4. When do you tend to talk with the physical therapist?

5. What do you tend to talk to the physical therapist about?

6. Have you felt understood and supported during treatment?

7. Do you believe the physical therapist sought your collaboration during treatment?

 7.1 In order to establish objectives

 7.2. In order to establish the means for achieving these objectives

8. Do you believe the physical therapist gives you all the information you need to know?

9. Do you tend to understand the physical therapist? Yes, no; when? and why?

10. How do you describe the environment in which your relationship with the physical therapist takes place? And, how does this environment affect you?

11. What aspects do you consider are worth improving in the relationship between the physical therapist and yourself?