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Table 1 Participants interviewed per category

From: Challenges and opportunities for implementation and dissemination of a task- sharing counselling intervention for depression at primary health care level in South Africa

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

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