Most participants had a lifelong history of considerable overweight. Seven had additional weight-related conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, or sleep disorders, none of them had manifest cardiovascular disease.
Two focus-group interviews, each lasting 90 minutes, were conducted in 2008 with gender-separate groups [14]. A moderator (KM) initiated the interviews using an open-ended question inviting the participants to tell us about their own experiences when encountering their GP, calling for experiences perceived by them as good as well as bad. After these two interviews, we found the information gathered to be sufficiently saturated for analysis.