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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 31.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2013 Nov 15;20(1):1–28. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2013.857762

Table 2.

Semi-structured, Debriefing Interview Questions on Feasibility, Acceptability, and Clinical Utility

Patient Topics
  1. Overall, how did you feel answering these questions about your perspective?

  2. How did the questions affect what you talked about with the clinician?

  3. How did the CFI affect your relationship with the clinician?

  4. How different were these questions from those of your other clinicians?

  5. How did the CFI affect what you think or feel about mental health care?

  6. What was most helpful about the questions of the CFI? Least helpful?

  7. Are there any particular CFI questions that you think should be changed or removed, perhaps because they were unclear? Are there any additional questions that were not asked during the CFI, but should be included?

  8. How do you think the CFI might affect your care?

Clinician Topics
  1. Overall, how would you describe your experience using these questions of the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI)?

  2. How did the inclusion of the CFI affect the content and the quality of the information you obtained?

  3. What impact did using the Cultural Information Interview have on your relationship with your patient?

  4. How did the CFI affect the differential diagnosis and the eventual working diagnosis?

  5. How did the CFI affect treatment planning?

  6. What was most helpful about the inclusion of the CFI in the clinical evaluation? Least helpful?

CFI - Cultural Formulation Interview