Table 3.

Quotations Illustrating Sources of Credibility Regarding How Mental Health Information and/or Services Should be Conveyed

Expert	I think that if they have a regular primary care doctor and they have a relationship with their doctor and the doctor see something in them you know that would encourage them that they may need to go because of the trust that they have with their doctor, then he can encourage them to go seek further help. (Group 1)
	Moderator: how would that information need to come to you in order for it to be useful to you?
	[First response] Workshops
	[Second response] Yeah seminars and workshops
	[Third response] And if they had a hot line where you could call and ask questions. (Group 3)
	Medical doctors at schools, I like to talk to people who have experience at the school either themselves or the people they’re around. (Group 2)
Celebrity	[First response] Perhaps people that are public figures that we know come out and let people know like, I’m not saying I trust Mike Wallace but I didn’t know that he was depressed. … But “60 Minutes” had been on forever and I’m like Mike Wallace was depressed, what! And now he’s out there talking about it.
	[Second response] I think a lot of the rappers can help a lot of teenagers too. Yeah because a lot of teenagers are committing suicide too
	[Third response] Because that’s the same with Magic Johnson when he became public about HIV, you know he helped a lot of people by doing that.
	[Fourth response] A lot of athletes are speaking out on all of their situations which is good. (Group 1)
Looks like me	I think it would be more acceptable to me if it was somebody who looks like me, that’s of my ethnic background because in my mind there are differences in mental illnesses, the way one group of people go through it and the way of another. (Group 3)
	That’s probably why African-Americans probably were over looked because we went to these Caucasian shrinks and we just was hiding it, whereas we’d probably be more receptive to an African-American psychiatrist. (Group 1)
	But if a man looked like you and carried himself like you and you saw that he accessed help would you be more than likely to follow his example. (Group 1)
Known to them	I trust my family so I’m thinking if my family discussed it I’d trust it better than talking to somebody else. (Group 1)
	I’ll go and seek help there. I’ll go to my minister or whoever is here [because I trust them. If they had the resources or they talked about mental illness in the church people would feel freer to go over there and get help. (Group 1)
Have been there	[First response] Somebody who has gone through it
	[Second response] Somebody going through it (Group 4)
	Get some people who are on medication and going through it to talk about it to share the experience.
	(Others: Yeah / Let them talk about it)
	That’s just as good as having a doctor or a professional tell us but what about the people who are going through it themselves. (Group 3)