Table 3 Questions asked to patients and healthcare professionals

- Do you know anything about lifestyle modification (diet, exercise, etc.) in order to change your mood and depression?

- All of you have taken part in a research project about modifying lifestyles. Did these recommendations that were given to you show you something new that you did not know?

- Did you follow the recommendations for modifying lifestyles?

If NOT, why didn’t you follow them?

- How did you feel when you followed the recommendations? And when you didn’t?

- What difficulties did you encounter in implementing the recommendations?

- Do you think these recommendations helped you?

- What do you think about the doctor’s role?

- And about the way of carrying out this modification?

- Do you think another type of intervention would have helped you? Would an educational group or another kind of intervention have helped you?

- Do you think there is something more that can be done to help you to modify your lifestyle when depressed?

- How do you think you should make recommendations for modifying life styles?

- And to a patient with depression?

- Do you know how this intervention can help him/her?

- Do you think these recommendations can be effective? And do you believe the patient thinks that they work?

- What difficulties do you think depressed patients have in changing their behaviour?

- And what feelings do they have?

- And as for modifying lifestyles, do you work in a different way in the case of a depressed patient?

- What do you think is necessary in order to be effective when modifying lifestyles?

- What do you think about educational groups?

- And about follow-up?

- Do you think these interventions are feasible from PC?

- What difficulties do you encounter when giving this type of advice?

- What is the appropriate level (or department or system) to implement this kind of interventions?