Table 1.

Interview guides for trained and not yet trained primary care providers

Trained What your main motivations for participating in TEACH training? In what TEACH activities have you participated? How has participation in TEACH changed your practice? Has there been a change in your willingness to ask families about behavioral or emotional issues? Has there been a change in the confidence you feel to counsel families about children’s behavioral or emotional issues? Has your mental health work changed since participating in TEACH? Have your mental health medication prescribing practices changed over the past 3 years? Were there factors that helped or hindered your use of what you learned in TEACH? if the respondent had used the telephone consult service, did they receive the help they had desired and what was the patient outcome? Would it have been different without the consultation? Do you have recommendations for improving TEACH? What unmet needs remain for managing mental health in primary care and for accessing child mental health services?

Not yet trained Has there been a change in your mental health-related work over the past 3 years? If so, to what do you attribute this change? What factors have helped or hindered your mental health work in the past 3 years? Thinking about the most recent patient who had mental health problems that concerned you, were you able to get the help that you needed? What was the outcome of the most recent child you cared for who needed a referral for a mental health problem? Has there been a change in your willingness to ask families about behavioral or emotional issues? Has there been a change in the confidence you feel to counsel families about children’s behavioral or emotional issues? Have your mental health medication prescribing practices changed over the past 3 years? What are your recommendations for training practitioners such as yourself regarding management of mental health problems?