Table 5.

Caregiver Qualitative Themes and Exemplars for African Americans and Caucasians

Caregiver Themes by Frequency, Number and Percent	African American and Caucasian Exemplars
Support (119; 41%)	Support received from the telephone counselor:
	“Knowing I had somebody...” (Caucasian)
	“The emotional support...” (African American)
	“The phone calls made me accountable...” (Caucasian)
	“Telephone counselor actually listened...”(African American)
Resources (103; 35%)	Resources to aid with caregiving or included in intervention such as activity log, pedometer, information, knowledge, advice, suggestions, questions, services, or manual:
	“The information about diversion...”(Caucasian)
	“The book was interesting.” (Caucasian)
Responsibility (32; 11%)	Caregiver assuming responsibility for making changes:
	“...conscious of the things I should be doing...” (African American)
	“Have to change yourself...” (Caucasian)
	“I can only control myself...” (African American)
Adjusting (27; 9%)	Caregiver adjusting to new ways:
	“Learning how to take care of myself...” (African American)
	“Accepting the reality of my husband's illness...” (African American)
	“Understanding that they can't help it...” (Caucasian)
Time (12; 4%)	Caregiver references to time:
	“Trying to schedule...” (Caucasian)
	“...wanted more time talking” (Caucasian)
	“Short length of time on the phone...” (Caucasian)
	“You have to make the time and schedule...” (Caucasian)

Note: Total number of theme occurrences = 293

Note: Some themes emerged more than once per caregiver response