Table 1 Questions for the semi-structured interview

1. Please describe your feelings on learning and applying pediatric tuina during the 8-week period. Prompt: the most touching or impressive experience or thought

2. Could you talk about the changes took place on you and your child after using pediatric tuina? Prompt: any changes (e.g. the physical functions, emotion, relationship), examples

3. If any, please talk about the difficulties you met when using pediatric tuina? Prompt: e.g. time, difficult manipulations

4. If any, please talk about the facilitators to motivate or help you use pediatric tuina. Prompt: e.g. safety of the intervention

5. If any, please talk about the barriers to insist on using pediatric tuina in the future. Prompt: e.g. lack of professional guidance

6. What do you think of the core content (pediatric tuina course and the TCM pattern identification) of the intervention? Prompt: e.g. whether useful or not

7. What do you think of the auxiliary content (pediatric tuina textbook, auxiliary relevant documents weekly) we provided? Prompt: e.g. whether useful or not

8. Overall speaking, do you have any suggestion for the implementation of parent-administered pediatric tuina? Prompt: e.g. course settings