| 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? | Optim |
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