Table 5.

Open-ended question summary

Mental Health and Primary Care Integration	Positive aspects	Negative aspects
Network category	• Connecting primary care and mental health services. • Planning care together	• Lack of knowledge about different units, system structures and work processes • Constraints regarding institutional processes
Primary Mental Health education category	• Helping non-specialists managing mental health problems • Training SUS gatekeepers to identify mental health problems • Narrowing the communication gap between different work processes • Favouring primary teams to diagnose and prescribe appropriate interventions.	• Lack of human resources, excessive turnover of GPs, excessive working hours • Lack of knowledge regarding psychosocial interventions in PC
Primary Mental Health Interventions category	• Improving access to cases of difficult adherence • Delivering mental health care in the community • Integrating actions to care of co-morbidities	• Integrating different professionals’ timetables • Low frequency of mental health matrix support in the community (once a month) • Continuity of care is not perceived as a health tenet