Table 3 Selected quotes from open-ended responses of the primary care workers on the training

What they liked about the training

· Everything - Especially the roleplay, Kudos to the Organisers

· Method of teaching, materials given, resource personnel

· The way training was presented, will enable me to deal with depressed patient

Perception of the PHCW of trainers

· Loved their teaching, created rapport with us, gave answer on every question asked and (I) gained more knowledge on depression

· Interesting, illustrative, and educating, increased my skill and knowledge

· Facilitators did well, took time to teach us, I now know better on depression

Language used for training

· The training is very interesting, easy to understand

· Clear communication between trainers and trainee, visual communication also, able to interact in our own language

· Communicated in the language I understand, the facilitators are fantastic, good for providers

· All our lecturers used our languages to teach us (Yoruba) and also maintain good interaction with us

Skills acquired during the training

· Gained knowledge on signs and symptoms of depression

· PHC workers can now assess, decide and manage perinatal depression cases

· The training is so interesting, my knowledge about depression and perinatal depression increased

· Health worker can now treat depression by psychosocial intervention

· I will be a good caregiver in assessing, diagnosis and management of any client with perinatal depression in my place of work

Dislikes about the training

· Course stressful

· Duration is too short

· Days of training too short

Suggestions for improving the training and moving forward

· Organise more trainings every 6 month or a year for everybody again

· Programmes should not stop, it should be a continuous exercise

· This training should cut across all health sectors and there should be monitoring from the trainers

· Persistent monitoring of the health personnel to encourage them to impact the knowledge acquired by them to stepdown the training to the health workers at work

· They should come for supervision all time and retrain us

· I suggest that the training should be continuous so as to help all the health workers at Primary Health care level to improve in attending to people with mental disorders

· Training should be extended to all health care providers in Oyo State PHC with state govt collaboration

· Early intervention, more training for people on how to move closer with people, Government should please employ personnel, timely attention should be focused