Table 1 Guiding topics for discussion.

From: Understanding sleep health challenges of defence shift workers to design a digital, sleep and circadian management tool

Introduction

Initial briefing, inform the participant about the purpose of the interview, discuss confidentiality.

Demographics

Age, job type or role, partners or dependents, domestic duties, if relevant.

Coping with shift work

Discuss shift work schedule, structure and schedule for each shift, task load for each shift type and breaks taken during or between consecutive shifts.

Discuss lifetime strategies used to accommodate shift work and manage performance, and feelings associated with those strategies.

Explore sleep and lifestyle impacts of shift work on other family members and dependents.

Interactions with digital tools

Discuss tools or applications used currently or in the past to manage sleep and shift work, as well as functionalities that they have found useful.

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