institutional requirements. The participants provided their written
informed consent to participate in this study.
Author contributions
SD: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis,
Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources,
Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review &
editing. EA: Conceptualization, Formal Analysis, Methodology,
Supervision, Writing – review & editing. BN: Conceptualization,
Formal Analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project
administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing– review & editing.
Funding
The author(s) declare thatﬁnancial support was received for
the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
The development of the CoreDISTparticipation and the RCT is
funded by the Northern Norway Health Authority (Helse Nord
RHF). This interview study was funded by Nord University
(PhD salary).
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank the participants in this study
and the user representatives from Nordland MS Association for
their valuable contributions. The authors also acknowledge
philosopher of the mind and cognitive sciences Hanne De
Jaegher for the valuable comments on the interpretations and
discussions of the results.
Conﬂict of interest
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the
absence of any commercial or ﬁnancial relationships that could
be construed as a potential conﬂict of interest.
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