Table 2.
No. | Objective | Major Themes |
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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 |