‘Trying to put a square peg into a round hole’: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ views of integrating complementary medicine into primary care for musculoskeletal and mental health comorbidity

Table 2 Participants in GP focus groups

Code	Attitude to CAM^a	CAM practitioner?	Deprivation in practice area (as reported by the GP)	Ethnicity	Practice location
A1	Neutral	No	Average	White	Semi-rural
A2	In favour	No	Deprived	Mixed race (Asian/Caucasian)	Urban
A3	Neutral but open	Yes, anthroposophic medicine	Mixed	Non-White	Urban
A4	In favour	Yes, acupuncture (British Medical Acupuncture Society, BMAS)	Deprived	White	Urban
A5	In favour	Previously (acupuncture, homeopathy)	Average	White	Semi-rural/ suburban
A6	Opposed to NHS funded CAM	No	Fairly deprived	White	Urban
A7	Mixed (depends on therapy)	Yes, acupuncture (BMAS)	Not deprived	White	Urban
A8	In favour	No	Not deprived	White	Semi urban
A9	Mixed (depends on therapy, payment etc)	No	Some deprivation	White	Urban
A10	In favour	No	Students	White	Urban
B1	Previously sceptical, becoming more open	No (acupuncture provided at surgery)	Deprived	White	Rural
B2	Neutral	No	Data missing	White	Locum
B3	Sceptical	No	Locum	White	Variety
B4	Open-minded but depends on the evidence	No (acupuncture provided at surgery)	Lower deprivation	Non-White	Suburban
B5	Data missing	No	Mixed	White	Data missing
B6	Data missing	Yes, acupuncture	Data missing	Data missing	Data missing
C1	Neutral	No	Affluent	White	Rural/urban
C2	In favour (if evidence-based)	No	Pockets of deprivation	White	Semi-rural
C4	Sceptical/neutral	No	Deprived	White	Urban
C5	Sceptical (but open to persuasion)	No	Mixed	White	Urban

^aThis is the respondent’s response to asking in an email “We are hoping that the focus groups comprise people with a diversity of opinion - would you say in general you are in favour of CAM, opposed to CAM or simply neutral?”