Table 2 Recommendations for the coaching intervention – barriers and facilitators

Result

Contributions

Difficulty for translating theory into practice

Strategies and techniques to take action

Difficulties in sustaining a healthy diet

Indications and recommendations for a healthy diet

To facilitate simple menus

To facilitate healthy menus

Techniques to control stress (anxiety)

Motivation strategies to implement a healthy diet and make it sustainable over time

Pain associated with physical activity

Techniques to manage pain

Indications and recommendations to carry out physical activity

Motivation strategies to start and sustain physical activity

Fear

Strategies to overcome fears

Result

Contributions

Holistic Vision

Holistic vision focused on individual needs

Lack of individualisation

Taking into account the person within the group

Physiotherapy to reduce pain

Include physiotherapy exercises in the intervention

Strategies to sustain the practice of these exercises

They would like to have more information

To provide information on the disease, its repercussions and advice on how to live with it

Learning to say “no”

Assertiveness strategies

Social support

To offer space for participants to talk about their particular situation

To offer the possibility of continuity of contact between participants at the end of the intervention (WhatsApp, phone, etc.)

Self-care

To provide strategies for the patient to have time for him/herself

Learning to calm down

Strategies to control stress

Mindfulness

Breathing and relaxation techniques

Acceptance

Work with acceptance and differentiating it from resignation

Values

The patients’ most important values will be used to motivate and to generate change in the participants (family, autonomy, discipline)