Participant category | Topics covered during interview/focus group discussion |
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PLWHA | At baseline: depression awareness, depression treatment experiences and feasibility of integration At midline: experiences with those delivering the treatment, challenges during treatment and recommendations for change At endline: changes in health since the last therapy session, challenges encountered, what worked/did not work well and recommendations for change |
Adherent and non-adherent HIV patients (a subset of PLWHA who had not been interviewed) participating in exit interviews | Experiences and reasons for adherence/non-adherence |
Lay health workers | At baseline: perspectives on depression and psychotherapy, the process of delivery of psychotherapy, and feasibility of integration At midline: experiences and challenges of delivering psychotherapy and recommendations for improving the treatment, ease of applying decision support algorithm At endline: experiences of managing depression and with patients, challenges of managing depression and perspectives on integration, ease of applying decision support algorithm |
Clinicians and supervisors | At baseline: depression prevalence, patients’ care-seeking behaviour, experiences with depression patients, perspectives on antidepressants and its delivery, and integration At midline: experiences and challenges of delivering antidepressants, ease of applying decision support algorithm and recommendations for improvement in treatment delivery At endline: experiences of depression management, barriers of treatment delivery and recommendations, ease of applying decision support algorithm and perspectives on challenges and opportunities of integration |
Mental health specialists | Experiences of depression management, barriers of treatment delivery and recommendations, and perspectives on challenges and opportunities of integration |