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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 19.
Published in final edited form as: Qual Health Res. 2020 Jul 25;30(12):1833–1850. doi: 10.1177/1049732320937663

Table 2.

Research Objectives and Major Qualitative Themes.

No. Objective Major Themes
1 Understand how past experiences of health care discrimination play a role in the experience of seeking and receiving mental health treatment 1a: Challenges to receiving mental health treatment
1b: Health care discrimination exacerbates already complex mental health care seeking
2 Understand whether and how treatment preferences are elicited by providers and then routinely incorporated into clinical care for depression 2a: Treatment preferences are not often systematically elicited
2b: Regardless of past health care discrimination, patients generally value a trusting relationship with clinicians that facilitates an individualized, fully informed approach to selecting optimal treatments
3 Understand to what degree treatment preferences are shaped by experiences of health care discrimination 3a: Regardless of past health care discrimination, treatment preferences are fluid and shaped by shared decision-making with providers whom the patient trusts
3b: Patients who have experienced health care discrimination face greater challenges to forming trusting relationships with providers to engage in shared decision-making, which serves to both elicit and shape preferences