Table 1 PCP Individual Interview Sample Questions ᅟ

 1. Tell me about your primary care practice?

 2. Describe the patient population in your primary care practice?

 3. Tell me about your experiences in your practice of providing health services to patients with mental health problems?

 4. Tell me about an experience where you were asked by a patient to provide mental health services/support to a patient when you felt comfortable or equipped to do so?

 5. Tell me about an experience where you were asked to provide mental health services/support to a patient when you did not feel comfortable or equipped to do so?

 6. What have been your experiences working with the psychiatrist?

 7. What have been your experiences working with the counsellor?

 8. What kinds of decisions were made during these collaboration?

 9. How did the collaborative decisions meet your needs?

 10. How did the collaborative decisions meet your patient’s needs?

PCPs and MHPs Focus Group with Sample Questions:

 1. Tell me what Interprofessional collaboration means to you?

 2. In your particular practice tell me who is involved in the interprofessional collaboration process to deliver mental health service?

 3. How does co-location influence the interprofessional collaboration process?

 4. Tell me about your approach to patients?

 5. How is information such as decisions communicated between health care providers?

 6. What are your team’s strengths?

 7. What have been your biggest challenges collaborating to deliver mental health services?

 8. Tell me what happens when there is disagreement between providers? How are conflicts resolved?

 9. How does the Shared Care program or the WRHA support interprofessional collaboration to deliver mental health services?

Regional Leaders and Decision-makers Focus Group and Individual Interviews Sample Questions:

 1. From your perspective, what is the role of the various team members in delivering mental health care?

 2. What do you see as your role in relation to delivery mental health care in primary care settings?

 3. Shared care is thought to involve interprofessional collaboration, what does that mean to you?

 4. Describe how interprofessional collaboration is used to deliver mental health services in primary care?

 5. What structures does the program or the region provide that supports interprofessional collaboration in Shared Care Mental Health? Are there other structures that you think would provide additional support or facilitate greater collaboration?

 6. What processes do you think are facilitative of interprofessional collaboration and how does the program or region support these processes? Are there other processes that you think could make a facilitating contribution to interprofessional collaboration?

 7. Describe any or how the program or region impede interprofessional collaboration? What kinds of things could be changed to remove these barriers?

 8. What role does this group play in developing and facilitating interprofessional collaboration?

 9. What resources does this group access to encourage and support interprofessional collaboration? What kinds of resources are missing/unavailable that could further support interprofessional collaboration?