Table A3.

Shows the changes pertaining to the different aspects of the content and delivery method of the intervention.

Topic	Decisions based on results from FGDs and KIIs
Length of sessions	The project team took on board the advice from many participants of summarising the story into more concise sessions by reducing redundancies and removing unnecessary details of the story (approximately two-thirds of its original length)
Pace of intervention	The time gap between the sessions was extended, users are given 10 days to complete one session before sending a reminder to start the next
Support time and method	Project team took into consideration the time preferences of the community and increased the flexibility of the support methods by providing more options (phone, email or chat support)
Role of characters	Participants suggested that the doctor and narrator should have different roles to add credibility to the advice. Therefore, a prescriptive role was given to the doctor, and narrative role to the main character
Inclusiveness	Based on the comments from single and working female participants who had difficulties in seeing themselves related to the narrator, the project team decided to include less illustrations of and reference to children in the story and is considering making a version of the story for single users
Clarity of the content	The team responded to the comments related to the misconceptions of the therapeutic examples used, and the difficulty of reading the story. The story was made into a video and the psychoeducational parts were reformulated
Concept of depression	A central part of the story, the ‘tired cycle’ was updated to the ‘sadness and withdrawal cycle’ in response to participants’ suggestions. See Fig. 3 for an example of how this element of the story changed
Illustrations	One illustration was changed with regard to colour and hand gesture because the original referred to a political party in Lebanon (see Fig. 4)