Pettersson, Agneta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5785-3069
Modin, Sonja
Wahlström, Rolf
af Winklerfelt Hammarberg, Sandra
Krakau, Ingvar
Article History
Received: 12 December 2016
Accepted: 28 November 2017
First Online: 24 January 2018
Authors’ information
: IK, SM, and RW are senior GPs with a doctoral degree who are experienced in research in primary care. SM and RW have extensive experience with qualitative methodology. SW is a GP with a special focus on psychiatric diagnostics who contributed to the procedures section of the protocol and initiated the study at PCC2. SW moved to PCC3 and volunteered as a study participant. AP is a doctoral student working in governmental health technology assessments and has experience in interviewing. IK and AP had previous knowledge of the MINI from participation in a systematic review on diagnostic tools for affective disorders.
: Ethical approval (2013/1860-31/2) was granted by the Stockholm Regional Ethical Review Board. The study was performed according to the Helsinki Declaration. The participants signed informed consent and were informed about their right to leave the study at any time and be deleted from the analyses.
: Participants consented that the results were to be published and that information would be presented at an aggregated level. Interviewees consented that quotations could be used but in de-identified format.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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