Table 2. Summary of participant responses by theme from the focus groups.

Emerging Themes	Emerging Subthemes	Example Quotations
Health	Health Conditions Benefits of Health Healthy Behaviors	Patient: “I have a [family] history of diabetes, my brother also has diabetes.” Patient: “It’s not funny when you’ve got really heavy kids who can’t walk you know. You’ve got diabetic kids. So it’s not as funny anymore, you know.” Patient: “After my mother died, I was scared to go back to sleep 'cause I said maybe I'll die in my sleep. I'm worried all the time.” Researcher: “About dying?” Patient: “Yeah” Patient: “Well you have to be active to get around and you have to be healthy to be active.” Patient: “The most important thing about health is nutrition.” Employee: “I don’t want to be in a wheel chair at the age of 40, because I was doing the wrong thing, smoking and drinking alcohol, eating junk food.” Employee: “health is important because you want to reach an older age”
Healthy Environments/Union Community Health Center	Environments that encourage health	Employee: “Once you leave [the health center], there is nothing [healthy]. There’s pizza. There’s Popeye’s. There is crap all around, which makes the area sick.” Employee: “Drinking soda is the norm because that’s what you grew up with.” Patient: “The parents have to be the one to be the role models”
Sugary Drinks—Behaviors and attitudes	Usage and patterns of sugary drinks Activities Emotional state Soda brand taste and preference	Employee: “I know that soda is not good for me for many reasons… but once in a while I take Pepsi.” Employee: “And then I’ll pop another can, ‘cause when it’s hot, it’s like really hot and you’ve got the air conditioner, it feels good with popcorn, you know.” Employee: “And I drink soda, like I share like a half a can like in the afternoon, me and, you know, my friend, or if my mother comes over.” Interviewer: “And your mother will come over and you’ll split just one soda.” Employee: “Yes, we just split it.”
Sugary Drinks	Family and Friends	Employee: “My mom is coming over this weekend and she loves soda and I don’t have soda in my house….I think I’m going to have to buy it and I don’t want to.” Interviewer: “So you’re kind of conflicted.” Employee: “See I give in and I buy it…No, you buy it. Target has it on sale. You get three cases, you know.” Patient (of her son): “I let him drink sodas, juices. And besides that the sugar—my grandfather recently died of diabetes. I don’t want him to get used to that either. And like I said, it’s not the best example. I am now trying to teach him because water is better, and that makes him feel better.”
Sugary Drinks	Thoughts about SSB Free Zone	Patient: “That would be a beautiful thing. But here's the thing. People got to educate themselves and a lot of people refuse to do that.” Employee: “There will be push back.”
Health	Health Conditions Benefits of Health Healthy Behaviors	Patient: “I have a [family] history of diabetes, my brother also has diabetes.” Patient: “It’s not funny when you’ve got really heavy kids who can’t walk you know. You’ve got diabetic kids. So it’s not as funny anymore, you know.” Patient: “After my mother died, I was scared to go back to sleep 'cause I said maybe I'll die in my sleep. I'm worried all the time.” Researcher: “About dying?” Patient: “Yeah” Patient: “Well you have to be active to get around and you have to be healthy to be active.” Patient: “The most important thing about health is nutrition.” Employee: “I don’t want to be in a wheel chair at the age of 40, because I was doing the wrong thing, smoking and drinking alcohol, eating junk food.” Employee: “health is important because you want to reach an older age”
Healthy Environments/Union Community Health Center	Environments that encourage Health	Employee: “Once you leave [the health center], there is nothing [healthy]. There’s
	Environments that discourage health	pizza. There’s Popeye’s. There is crap all around, which makes the area sick.” Employee: “Drinking soda is the norm because that’s what you grew up with.” Patient: “The parents have to be the one to be the role models”
Sugary Drinks—Behaviors and attitudes	Usage and patterns of sugary drinks Activities Emotional state Soda brand taste and preference	Employee: “I know that soda is not good for me for many reasons… but once in a while I take Pepsi.” Employee: “And then I’ll pop another can, ‘cause when it’s hot, it’s like really hot and you’ve got the air conditioner, it feels good with popcorn, you know.” Employee: “And I drink soda, like I share like a half a can like in the afternoon, me and, you know, my friend, or if my mother comes over.” Interviewer: “And your mother will come over and you’ll split just one soda.” Employee: “Yes, we just split it.”
Sugary Drinks	Family and Friends	Employee: “My mom is coming over this weekend and she loves soda and I don’t have soda in my house….I think I’m going to have to buy it and I don’t want to.” Interviewer: “So you’re kind of conflicted.” Employee: “See I give in and I buy it…No, you buy it. Target has it on sale. You get three cases, you know.” Patient (of her son): “I let him drink sodas, juices. And besides that the sugar—my grandfather recently died of diabetes. I don’t want him to get used to that either. And like I said, it’s not the best example. I am now trying to teach him because water is better, and that makes him feel better.”
Sugary Drinks	Thoughts about SSB Free Zone	Patient: “That would be a beautiful thing. But here's the thing. People got to educate themselves and a lot of people refuse to do that.” Employee: “There will be push back.”
Health Literacy	Information Education	Employee: “To have people to really get into the habit of cutting down on soda, we should have … signs of the effect that it causes on a person’s health when they use the soda . . . That will help people to adhere to it.” Patient: “I always read everything that I put in my [body]. I've learned to read every ingredient that's in there. But I think that they should impose a rule for a healthier drink.”