Participants | N | Interview focus |
---|---|---|
Provincial manager | 1 | The impact of integrated mental health services; systemic barriers to implementation and how these could be overcome, as well as planning and budgetary allocations for mental health |
District Managers | 7 | |
Facility Operational Managers | 7 | The operation of their facilities including their leadership skills; staff training; task- sharing; having the lay-counsellor in their facility; human resources and information systems |
Professional Nurses | 14 | The factors related to their role in the intervention in identification and referral of patients with depressive symptoms, as well as case managers |
Project- employed Lay-Counsellors | 8 | Perceived reception of the counselling service and the counsellors’ experiences of the service and service integration into the facility |
Counsellors in the system (HCT Lay-Counsellors) | 19 (4 focus groups) | Their perspectives on the possible expansion of their role to include providing counselling for patients with depressive symptoms |
Patients | 28 (7 focus groups) | Their experience of the lay-counselling intervention |
Counsellor Supervisors | 2 | Counselling intervention supervision experience |
Total | 86 | Â |