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Table 1 Overview of participants and methods

From: Maternal mental health priorities, help-seeking behaviors, and resources in post-conflict settings: a qualitative study in eastern Uganda

Research activities

Location

Participants

Free listing and key informant interviews with primary health care workers (AI 1)

Health Center III in SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4

Health Center II in SC1, SC2

N = 22 (13 female, 9 male)

Free listing and key informant interviews with community health care workers (AI 2)

Health Center I (Village Health Team) in SC1, SC2

N = 22 (7 female, 15 male) – 10 individual interviews and one group interview (12 participants – 8 male and 4 female)

Semi-structured interviews (case vignette) with perinatal women (AI 3)

Health Center III antenatal services in SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4

N = 16 perinatal women (4 from each sub-county)

Key informant interviews with primary health care workers (SI 4)

Health Center III in SC2

Health Center II in SC1, SC2

N = 4 (female)

Key informant interviews with community health care workers (AI 4)

Health Center I in SC3

N = 2 (male)

Key informant interviews with traditional and religious healers (round 1) (AI 5)

SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4

N = 8 (4 traditional healers, 4 religious healers; all male)

Key informant interviews with a subset of traditional and religious healers (round 2) (AI 4)

SC1, SC2

N = 2 (1 traditional healer, 1 religious healer; both male)

Key informant interviews with perinatal women (AI 6)

SC1, SC2, SC3, SC4

N = 8

Key informant interviews with mental health specialists (AI 7)

Health Center V (Soroti Regional Referral Hospital)

Health Center VII (Butabika National Referral Hospital, Kampala)

N = 9 (3 female, 6 male)

  1. AI Additional Information, SC1 Sub-county 1, as a confidentiality safeguard, sub-counties are numbered