Section 1 Demographics

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1. How old are you?

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2. What is your gender?

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3. What type of SMA has the person you care for been diagnosed with?

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4. Where in the UK do you live

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5. What is your highest/current educational level?

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6. What is your current occupation, if working?

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7. Is English your first language?

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8. How would you describe your ethnicity? Feel free to leave blank if you would prefer not to say.

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9. Have you received any of the following medications? Tick all that apply.

Section 2: Current Clinical Needs

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10. What are your current respiratory needs?

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11. Do you require any help maintaining you airway, for example a tracheostomy? If so, please note the support you are using.

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12. Do you require support managing your secretions?

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13. Do you use a cough assist?

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14. How are you currently feeding?

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15. What is your level of function in your lower limbs? Please select the option closest to your ability.

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16. What is your current level of function in your upper limbs?

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17. How is your speech currently?

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18. Please rank the following areas of health that are most important to you in the last 7 days. (1 = most important 6 = least important).

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19. Please rank the following areas of health that were most important to you in the first year of diagnosis (1 = most important 6 = least important).

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20. Have we missed something? Please add in any other areas you feel are most important to your health below and let us know where that ranks in the options above.

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21. How would you consider your quality of life in the past month?

1 - Lowest possible quality of life 4 7 - Best possible quality of life
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22. If you would like to clarify, please feel free to use free text below.

Section 3: Discussions at time of diagnosis

If you were present in the initial diagnosis and information given about the condition soon after diagnosis please answer the following questions, if not tick N/A

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23. Were you given sufficient information about the condition at time of diagnosis?

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24. If no, please let us know what areas of information you felt were missed

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25. Were you given enough information of what the outcome for you would be without drug treatments like nusinersen, risdiplam or zolgensma?

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26. If no, please let us know what areas of information you felt were missed

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27. Were drug treatments like nusinersen, risdiplam or zolgensma available in the UK at the time of your diagnosis?

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28. Were you given sufficient information about available non-drug management (e.g. breathing and feeding support or postural/orthopaedic management) of the condition?

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29. If no, please let us know what areas of information you felt were missed

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30. Were you informed of all possible drug treatments available on the NHS (not under research) at that time?

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31. Did you feel that you had enough information about the drug treatment options presented to make a decision?

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32. Did you understand the possibility of the choice of no drug treatment and what this may entail?

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33. Were you informed of the possibility of not engaging in other supportive management for SMA (e.g. breathing and feeding support or postural/orthopaedic management) and what this may entail?

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34. If a new drug treatment for SMA became available on the NHS subsequently after your diagnosis, was information about the drug treatment given adequately?

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35. Did you feel you participated in the health decision making process for SMA?

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36. Feel free to elaborate below.

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37. How confident are you that the management decisions you made were the right decisions at the time?

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38. If the diagnosis was made much earlier (a few days after being born and potentially with very minimal symptoms of SMA), such as through newborn screening, would this change your decision, and if so how.

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39. Please let us know your thoughts on why you selected your answer

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40. Throughout this process, were you offered any psychological support?

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41. Was the concept of palliative care discussed/explained or introduced during your initial consultations?

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42. In your view, is it you and your family that make the final decision about treatment or is it the health care professionals, or in partnership together?

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43. Has the treatment met your expectations?

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44. If no, please let us know why.

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45. Would you be interested for a researcher to contact you for participating in a qualitative interview to yield more information? This will likely take 1 hour and can be in-person or virtually. If yes, provide an email address or phone number and one of the research team will be in touch.

Thank you for completing this survey. Once we have reviewed everyone’s answers, we will post a summary of the findings on the SMA UK website.

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