Background: The Motivational Interviewing and Medication Review in Coronary heart disease (MIMeRiC) trial tested a pharmaceutical care intervention over 8 months in a randomized controlled design among 316 patients. More intervention participants were adherent to their medicines at follow-up and they had less concern for their drugs, but there was no difference in treatment target attainment rates. Aim: To 1) evaluate participants’ experiences of consultations, perceived effect on reasoning about medicines and perceived effect on medicine-taking behavior, and 2) explore in what way the intervention was experienced as person-centred. Method: Four focus groups were undertaken among intervention participants of different characteristics. The focus groups were transcribed verbatim and analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Participants’ experience of the intervention was analyzed on a manifest level by LH and MJÖ, using the three research questions to form an unconstrained matrix in which meaning units were analysed inductively. An inductive approach on the latent level was used by FV and MJÖ to explore the person-centredness of the intervention. Results: Preliminary results indicate that participants experienced the consultation as a comprehensive discussion about medicines and a helpful dialogue with someone who cared for them. That it made them feel safer with their drugs because it tempered their doubts and made the importance more evident, and that it helped them create and follow new routines and change their mind about using statins. Person-centredness was expressed by the participants in partnership, increased confidence, and the feeling that I matter. Final results will be presented in May. Conclusion:  Preliminary results indicate that the effect of the intervention on patients’ beliefs and adherence in part was related to the person-centredness created by the pharmacists being trained in motivational interviewing. In this study core elements of pharmaceutical care were applied in a way that was experienced as person-centred care.