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Table 2 Topics covered during interviews/focus group discussions with participants

From: Stakeholders’ perspectives on integrating the management of depression into routine HIV care in Uganda: qualitative findings from a feasibility study

Participant category

Topics covered during interview/focus group discussion

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