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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Transcult Psychiatry. 2021 Dec 13;59(3):274–291. doi: 10.1177/13634615211059711

Table 1.

Problems Generated from the Free Listing Exercise

Identified thoughts, feelings, or behaviors # of responses Illustrative Quotes Included? If no, for what reason?
Stress up 17 “Stress up is a mental problem for both woman. She want to do something there is no way out even to get solution for that problem there is no way out the problem is continuously.”
“Too much thinking without any single rest and no appetite for eating food.”
Yes
Bad feelings 16 “Due to bad feeling sometimes you feel like migrate away from the people and go to the bush and stay with the animals because people are causing him bad feeling.”
“I will know that the person has bad feels when the person doesn’t talk to people and always unhappy and annoyed.”
“She doesn’t want people to pick her things and not ready to interact to people She does not like joking, when you trying to joke with her she will wants to fight people.”
“She will stay alone and does not want to playing with others. She will only want to talk to people and she does not want people to talk to her. When you started she will not respond.”
“If she did some bad she not accept her mistakes.”
Included as symptom of pain in heart
Committing suicide 14 “How will I face people or pass by people at least when you killed yourself it will be better.” No, beyond the scope of the program.
Annoyed 14 “You will like not talking to anybody and also like to fight with anyone.” No, overly broad
Unhappy 14 “You will not be happy because there a lot of thing you want to get but no way.” No, overly broad
Too much thinking 14 “You don’t sleep at night thinking all the time about the problem she has.” Included as symptom stress up
Lonely 14 “She will always stay lonely because parents are refusing her that she is married and husband is not taking care.” Included as symptom to isolation
Sadness 12 “A person feel like crying always and not happy anymore.” No, overly broad
Fear 10 “Not staying freely, you will fear be move and take to any one because of which condition you are in.” Yes, included as symptom to traumatized
Shameful 9 “You think always people will laugh at you over the problem you have.”
“Shame is a nature and is some one who feel he has done some thing which is not liked by the society.”
“Something which is normally happening and the person do it shame also develops naturally.”
“The person will fear to expose herself in the society, fear to talk openly and even fear to see somebody’s eyes.”
“The person also feels guilty all the time, will not have capacity to lead a group or being a leader.”
Yes
Weakness 9 “This occur always when you have a lot of problem you will lose weight lack of appetite.” Yes, included as symptom to pain in heart
Thin 9 “Loss of appetite to eat would make someone sick.” No, not inherently a mental health problem
Quiet 9 “A person is not ready to talk to any one else in the community she belong.” Yes, included as symptom to shame
Unhappy 8 “Because way thing is destroyed by the current crisis in the country.” No, overly broad
Rudeness 7 “The face becomes red and always ready to fight anybody.” Yes
Stress 6 “See Stress Up” Yes, see stress up
Migrations 5 “They will feel like moving away from the area where there is problem.” No, outside the scope of the program
Worried 5 “They feel worried because of the things that happened during the war.” Yes, see stress up
Heart attack 5 “When their problem also you don’t feel well also the heart is not settle.” Yes, included as “pain in heart”
No respect 5 “No listening to anybody at home who tried to talk to you.” Yes, see rudeness
Isolated 5 “You stay alone and without any one else.” Yes
Discriminated 5 “When early problems occur you will think that the world come to you alone.” No, beyond the scope of the program
Traumatize 4 “Someone who has been in the war area witness a lot of things like killing, beating, robbing and being rude to others.”
“And also people who have not been war areas they are now fears like the guns shot in Juba so cause someone to be traumatized.”
“Some of children carry heavy load on their head and beatings that make them to be traumatized. And this is why some of student want to adopt such system.”
“Traumatize always cause psychology problems like instability in the mind that led to craziness.”
Yes, included with fear
Crying 4 “Shedding the tears if such problem occur.” Yes, included as symptom to pain in heart
Fighting 4 “They always feel like fighting especially if the husband is drinking alcohol.” Yes, included as symptom to rudeness
Helpless 4 “You feel that there is no one to help you and stay alone.” Yes, included as symptom to isolated
Madness 4 “Someone moving on the way talking alone to himself.” No, beyond the scope of the program
Discourage 4 “You feel like this is not my country why all these happen to my states.” No, related to shame
Silences 4 “A person is not ready to open her mouth to talk to any body.” Yes, included as symptom of shame