Reasons for low adherence to diet-diaries issued to pediatric dental patients: a collective case study

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Table 1 Summary of available data sources

Case	Age in years	Data sources
		Interview 1	Interview 2	Diet-diary	Dentist interview	Observation 1	Observation 2
Case 1	11	✓	×	✓	✓	✓	✓
Case 2	11	✓	✓	×	✓	✓	✓
Case 3	9	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Case 4	11	✓	×	×	✓	✓	×
Case 5	9	×	×	×	✓	✓	✓
Case 6	9	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

Table 2 Themes, sub-themes, and their conceptual definitions

Main theme	Sub-theme	Conceptual definition
A test perception and its outcomes	Parents presenting the best version of themselves	Parents try to present the best versions of themselves during dental encounters
	Giving the “right” answer	Parents are generally aware of what is the right answer to “pass the test”
	Clinicians priming the parents to think of the diet-diary as a “test”	Dentists behave in a way that suggests to parents the diet-diary is a test
User’s values, priorities, and circumstances	Relative position of diet-diaries in the hierarchy of priorities	Parents’ responsibilities and how they rank the importance of diet-diaries activity relative to their other everyday activities
	The parent–child relationship	Parents and children have different interests and views in relation to diet-diaries
	A paper diet-diary format is outmoded and onerous	A paper diet-diary does not fit and is not valued in a digital age

Figure S1 Topic guide for interviews and observation performa.