| | | 1st Respondent | 2nd Respondent |
| | Name of participants | X | Y |
| | Country of origin | Cameroon | Zimbabwe |
| | Social Interaction | Interacts with individuals of same origin | Yes |
| | Interaction with Healthcare | Yes but no mental healthcare access | Yes but there was language barrier |
| | Experience with mental health disorders | Yes | Yes |
| | Causes of mental health disorders | Stress due civil war crisis from home country | People did not understand me, and was frustrating. |
| | Culturally based stigma | Individuals expected to handle handle stress within them | People are afraid to speak about a mental illness. |
| | Definition for mental illnesses | starts with stress, then crisis | loss of memory, coordination, or experiencing psychosis. |
| | Signs of mental health illnesses | Stress, trauma, crisis, depression | Psychotic behaviors, depression |
| | Challenges of medical help access | Cost, Low Income | cost and language barrier |
| | Experience when seeking help | Not sought mental care help, before | Language barrier, Cultural beliefs are main problems |
| | Barriers to mental healthcare access | Stigma, Finances, Lack of awareness | Stigma , cost, language |
| | Feelings regarding past experiences | Create more awareness, stress the need to seek mental help | shun taboos on mental health, mental healthcare setup |
| | Current Response | Education and awareness | Education, creating awareness, social interaction, coping skills |
| | Challenges to mental health services access | Cost,stigma,lack of trust with health care providers | Cost, stigma, language |
| | How cultural stigma occurs in seeking medical help | Individuals expected to handle stress within them | Individuals expected to handle mental stress within them |
| | Experiences with mental health providers | Not sought mental care help, before | Very difficult to explain myself to them |
| | Current Living as West or Central African immigrant | Lonely, stressful, limited social interactions | great living, getting ahead in life. |
| | Signs of developing mental illnesses | Denial | feeling exhausted, angry and lack of sleep |
| | Efforts to seek mental health-related services | Not successful because of high cost/unaffordable | Not successful because counselors couldn’t understand him |
| | Medical help improvements needed to be made by authorities | Increase accessibilty, make healthcare affordable | More financing for training therapist and counselors. |
| | Future of African immigrants experiencing mental health services? | Optimistic services will improve | Make them affordable to accommodate immigrants |
| | Role of medical providers in enchancing barriers to mental healthcare access | African immigrantsdon’t trust medical providers due to past experiences | Unfair and biased treatment |
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