1. How are you? |
2. How did you travel here today? |
3. Tell me a little bit about your medication. |
4. When was the last time you missed a dose? |
a. Can you tell me about what happened? |
5. Describe the experience of getting drugs at the clinic for you. |
6. When you were first diagnosed wit HIV and they started you on ARVs, what did they tell you? |
a. Was it useful? |
7. What challenges do you face? |
8. What are your reasons for staying alive? |
9. I'm going to read out a list of things. (Slowly read list of symptoms of common mental disorders). Do you ever feel any of these things? |
a. Tell me about it. |
10. What do you understand by “depression”? |
a. What causes it? |
b. What can be done for it? |
11. We are trying to see if we can give counselling to some people who are struggling to take their medication. Has counselling been beneficial for you? |
a. If not, how can we help improve it? |
12. What would be some of the difficulties you would face if you had to come for counselling once a week, for a month? |
a. What could make it easier to come? |
13. If you wanted to talk about some of the problems you have been facing, what would be the best setting? |