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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. Has the child you care for received any of the following medications? Tick all that apply.

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* 10. What are the current respiratory needs of the person you care for?

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

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* 12. Do they require support managing their secretions?

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* 13. Do they use a cough assist?

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* 14. How are they currently feeding?

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

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

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* 17. How is their speech currently?

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* 18. Please rank the following areas of health that are most important to you as a parent/carer 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 as a parent/carer 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 their health below and let us know where that ranks in the options above.

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* 21. How would you consider YOUR CHILD’S quality of life in the past month? Please use free text below to answer.

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* 22. How would you consider YOUR quality of life in the past month? Please use free text below to answer.

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

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

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* 25. Were drug treatments like nusinersen, risdiplam or zolgensma available in the UK at the time of your child’s diagnosis?

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

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* 28. Did you understand the drug treatment options presented enough to make an informed decision?

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

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* 30. 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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* 31. 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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* 32. Did you feel you participated in the health decision making process for SMA?

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* 33. How confident are you that the management decisions made for your child or person you care for were the right decisions at the time?

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* 34. 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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* 35. Throughout this process, were you offered any psychological support from the teams looking after your child?

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

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* 37. In your view, is it the family that make the final decision about treatment for their child or is it the health care professionals, or in partnership together?

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* 38. Has the treatment met your expectations?

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* 39. 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.

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