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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Psychol. 2019 Dec 22;55(4):657–673. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12640

Is there anything that you personally learned, something you will take away, from the program?

Response Relevant codes
  • P4: I learned about anxiety.

  • I: Okay.

  • P4: Three to four modules about that, that was quite good.

  • I: Anything specific or any example that you would like to give us?

  • P4: That part where you’re told to write all our anxieties on a piece of paper. I found it very helpful. I still do it. After writing down what we feel, I feel that yes it can be tackled now. Like it is on a paper so it is not that huge of a problem. It helps me to, you know, gauge the scale of the problem and work on it. How am I going to solve it and how am I going to tackle it.

  • I: Yeah, you mean the thought diary where you are asked to list or think of alternative thought? Is that what you are saying?

  • P4: Yeah that one.

  • P1: Actually it was quite good because once you write it down it actually becomes a real issue. Like you cannot just let it fester inside. So once you write it down, you know that this is actually a problem and you have to do something about it. But if you don’t write it, it’s just like a thought and it’s momentary. It passes, but again comes back a few days later and it again haunts you. So you can just write it and then you know that you have to do something about this.

  • Acceptability —feature—positive (thought diary)

  • Acceptability—engagement—positive

  • Impact—effectiveness—positive