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Table 1 Interview guide

From: ‘I was young, I wanted to return to sport, and re-ruptured my ACL’ – young active female patients’ voices on the experience of sustaining an ACL re-rupture, a qualitative study

Sports and leisure time

Do you perform any sport as today?

What does your sport mean for you?

What are your dreams with your sport participation?

What do you do besides sport (work/study)?

Has your injury influences your choices of work?

First ACL injury/rehabilitation

How did you injure your ACL the first time?

How was the rehabilitation after the first surgery?

Do you recall anything particularly tough during rehabilitation?

Do you recall anything particularly easy during rehabilitation?

Was there anything that made you particularly sad during rehabilitation?

Was there anything that made you particularly happy during rehabilitation?

Did you get the support you wished during rehabilitation, and if so, from whom?

Second ACL injury/rehabilitation

Can describe how you injured your ACL the second time?

How did you feel?

Did you directly know it was the ACL again?

How did you feel upon receiving the medical notification that your ACL was ruptured again?

Did you feel anything was missed during your treatment – if so, what?

What did you feel about having to go through another rehabilitation process?

How do you think rehabilitation has affected you as a person?

How do you think suffering two ACL injuries as affected you as a person?

How did you look at the future before the second ACL injury?

How did the second ACL injury affect the way in which you looked at the future?

How did the second ACL injury affect your ambitions?

Social life/personality

How do you think your ACL injuries have affected your social life?

What kind of support have you had along the way?

What did your teammates mean to you?

Have you been spending less time with your teammates because of the ACL injuries? If so, why?

Do you feel lonely? If so, why?

How has the ACL injuries affected your self-image?

Is there anything related to your knee that you are afraid of?

If you could go back in time, what would you change?

How do you feel today?

Do you have any proposition for improvement?

Is there anything you would like to add?