Quantitative Findings:

A total of 35 participants out of 43 (81%) wished to continue the training in the healthcare center or participate in a similar programme if possible.

Qualitative Findings:

Interdisciplinary intervention in a local community setting with physiotherapists, vascular nurse and dietician is important. There were only a few new suggestions on how the ideal rehabilitation programme should be. Dietician sessions should be split in two, allowing practising between the sessions and an experienced senior dietician “in eye-level” with the participants. The 35 participants who wished to continue the training after the 12-week intervention were very sad when it ended. They expressed it very clearly: “I wish so much I could continue the exercise in the team every week all year”. “I like the variation in the exercises, and I wanted to continue with the team, even though I had to pay for it.”

Mixed-Methods Inferences: Confirmation

Qualitative and quantitative findings confirmed each other as both datasets show a strong wish to continue the exercise after 12-weeks, while the qualitative findings indicate that the programme fits patients with claudication well, with only few suggestions to a new programme.