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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Subst Abuse Treat. 2021 Mar 16;127:108352. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108352

Table 1.

Overview of questions used to guide the semi-structured interviews.

SEQUENCE OPENING QUESTION AND ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL PROMPTS

QUESTION 1 Can you tell me a little about how you/your family immigrated to the United States?
How has it gone here?
What has gone well?
What has been unexpected/challenging?
How, if at all, has your immigration experience/coming to the U.S., influenced your mental health?
QUESTION 2 What symptoms do you link with being anxious?
QUESTION 3 What symptoms do you link with being depressed?
QUESTION 4 What are some reasons that make you feel anxious?
QUESTION 5 What are some reasons that make you feel depressed?
QUESTION 6 What would help you to feel less anxious?
QUESTION 7 What would help you to feel less depressed?
QUESTION 8 Remember the CAMI interview you had with us?
If you can recall, what, if anything, about the interview helped you feel less anxious/depressed after the interview (i.e., person asked me about this, or listened to me about that, etc.)?
QUESTION 9 Have you reduced your drinking the last time we saw you?
How are you doing that?
What might encourage you to try? What supports would you need to overcome the barriers?
QUESTION 10 What suggestions do you have to improve the interview you did with us? (can suggest: phone-based texting, job training, physical activity, social support, being connected to services such as job training, WIC or food stamp programs, housing services, etc.).
QUESTION 11 If there was a treatment that targeted drinking and your mood, what would you want to focus on FIRST? Why?
Drinking, Mental health, or address them both together?