Table 2.

Focus group

Partner-Assisted Interpersonal Therapy Focus Group Purpose Statement: To describe and quantify patient and partner satisfaction with PAT.
Questions about the Intervention:
Directed to the patients:
How did PAT therapy address your depression?
How about the way you perceived your partner’s support?
Directed to the partners:
How did PAT impact your understanding of depression?
How about the way you understood your partner?
What are the key points about perinatal depression that you think partners of depressed women would need to better understand?
Directed to both:
What was the most surprising to you about the intervention?
What about PAT would you change?
What do you think helped the most?
What do you think about the measures you were asked to complete?
What challenged you in the intervention?
Was anything about the therapy or your therapist harmful to you or your relationship with your partner?
How easy or difficult was it for you to come to the Women’s Mental Health Center for treatment?
What kind of changes did you and your partner make in your daily life that may be due to PAT?
Did you find yourself and your partner discussing sessions outside of therapy? If so, what sorts of things did you talk about?
What is the session that you remember the best?
How would you describe PAT to someone who wanted to know more about it?
Do you have any other comments that didn’t fit into any of these topics?
Questions about the therapist:
What was your therapist like?
If you were to go to someone for therapy again, what would you look for in a therapist?