Research Article
Grounded Theory of Barriers and Facilitators to Mandated Implementation of Mental Health Care in the Primary Care Setting
Table 1
Interview questions and specific probes.
| Interview question | Specific probes |
| (1) Imagine that a patient with depression symptoms comes to the clinic. Can you walk me through a typical process of care | Referral process, differences between diagnoses? | (2) How has this process changed over the past 10 years? (or since you arrived in the clinic)? | Recent changes, challenges, failures, leadership support, referrals, interpersonal interactions, physical structure? | (3) Tell me about your sense of the need for coordination between PC and MH. | Examples of good and poor coordination? | (4) How would you change your clinic to better coordinate care? | Communication, collaboration, resource barriers? | (5) Have you or anyone you know had to develop your own coordination procedures to ensure that patients receive the best care? | Work-arounds, ad-hoc coordination procedures? | (6) Can you tell me about the relationship between the people in the PC and MH clinics? | Face to face contact, trust? | (7) In what situations would you say that teamwork is most important? | Coworkers back each other up |
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