Exploring trauma associated appraisals in trauma survivors from collectivistic cultures

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Table 1 Focus group and key informant demographic information

Focus group no	Participant number	Age	Gender	Ethnicity	Trauma event	Education	Residency status in UK and employment status	Time in UK	Collectivism (Hofstede and Hofstede 2004)
Focus group
1	P1	25	Female	Jordan	RTA	Masters	International Student status	<1 year	38
1	P2	29	Male	Indian	RTA	Masters	International student status	1 year	48
1	P3	28	Female	Slovakian	RTA	Masters	International Student status	2 years	52
1	P4	20	Female	Chinese	RTA	BSc	International student status	2 years	20
2	P5	28	Male	Indian	RTA	Masters	International Student status	<1 year	48
2	P6	26	Male	Sri Lankan	Witness death	Masters	International student status	<1 year	–^a
2	P7	26	Male	Sri Lankan	RTA	Masters	International student status	<1 year	–
2	P8	27	Male	Sri Lankan	RTA	Masters	International student status	<1 year	–
3	P9	22	Male	Chinese	Accident/injury	Masters	International student status	1 year	20
3	P10	23	Male	Vietnamese	RTA	Masters	International student status	1 year	20
3	P11	29	Male	Ethiopian	Persecution	A-Levels	International student status	<1 year	20

Interview session	Participant number	Age	Gender	Ethnicity	Type of trauma work	Education	Work experience	Time in UK	Collectivism (Hofstede and Hofstede 2004)
Key informant interview
A	PA	45	Male	British	Community violence; domestic violence; refugee trauma	Ph.D.	Clinical psychotherapist; >10 years	45	89
B	PB	40	Female	British	Refugee and asylum seeker trauma; sexual abuse; domestic violence	Ph.D.	Clinical psychologist; >10 years	40	89
C	PC	40	Male	British	Refugee and asylum seeker trauma; community violence; domestic violence	Ph.D.	Counseling psychologist; >10 years	40	89

RTA road traffic accident
^aSri Lanka has not been given a collectivism score as Hofstede and Hofstede (2004) have done for the other countries. However, Sri Lanka is considered a collectivistic culture (Hofstede and Hofstede 2004)