Main Category | Theme | Illustrative quote | Number of participants |
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Explanatory Models of depression | Pre-migration Traumatic Experiences: Exposed to violence in Afghanistan | “I am driving the car on the street and you [hear] explosions in this or that area. Always stress, always fighting. M7 | 2 (FG3) |
Post-migration Living Difficulties: Life in the camp | In a camp, especially in the camp that we are living, with high walls around the camp, [it] is like a prison here. Every night happens something new to the people. So, this is actually bringing stress. M2 | 2 (FG1) 3 (FG2) 1 (FG3) | |
Coping Strategies | Social Support | They were volunteers and now they have life, they are married. M4 | 1 (FG1) |
Cognitive Strategies | If you want to change the way, I mean a change to Adel [vignette character], you have to be strong, you have to give him the motivation to change his mind. M5 | 3 (FG2) 2 (FG3) | |
Solution-oriented coping | We can tell him, there’s a place that you can go for 3–4 months to improve your speaking skills and you make a CV, cover letter and also you send your kids to the kindergarten […] Then you find a job, then your life will be much better. M3 | 1 (FG1) 3 (FG2) | |
Professional Help | Having a psychologist and having a lawyer to inform him daily for the procedure and his documents. These two are the solution to his problems. M1 | 2 (FG1) 3 (FG2) |