The feasibility and acceptability of short-term, individual existential behavioural therapy for informal caregivers of patients recruited in a specialist palliative care unit

Table 1 Sampling frame - target and actual values of interviewees

		Target: participants to be interviewed (n = 15)	Actual: Participants interviewed in fact (n = 15)
Age	<65 years	4-12	11
Age	>65 years	4-12	4
Sex	female	4-12	8
Sex	male	4-12	7
Caregiver-patient relationship - The patient is my:	wife/husband or partner	4-12	10
	close family member	2-4	4
	close friend	2-4	1
Employed	yes	4-12	11
Employed	no	4-12	4

ISSN: 1472-684X