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Facilitators and barriers to NCD prevention in Pakistanis–invincibility or inevitability: a qualitative research study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Research Notes, May 2016
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Title
Facilitators and barriers to NCD prevention in Pakistanis–invincibility or inevitability: a qualitative research study
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BMC Research Notes, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13104-016-2087-2
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Ambreen Gowani, Hafiz Imtiaz Ahmed, Wardah Khalid, Abdul Muqeet, Saad Abdullah, Shariq Khoja, Ayeesha Kamran Kamal

Abstract

Non-communicable diseases (NCD) are the leading causes of death globally. In Pakistan, they are among the top ten causes of mortality, especially in the productive age group (30-69 years). Evidence suggests that health perceptions and beliefs strongly influence the health behavior of an individual. We performed focus group interviews to delineate the same so as to design the user interface of a non-invasive stroke risk monitoring device. It was a qualitative study, designed to explore how health perceptions and beliefs influence behavior for NCD prevention. Four focus group discussions (FGD) were conducted with 30 stable participants who had diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease, blood pressure, and stroke. The data was collected using a semi-structured interview guide designed to explore participants' perceptions of their illnesses, self-management behaviors and factors affecting them. The interviews were transcribed and content analysis was done using steps of content analysis by Morse and Niehaus [10]. Medication adherence, self-monitoring of blood sugars and blood pressures, and medical help seeking were the commonly performed self-management behaviors by the participants. Personal experience of illness, familial inheritance of disease, education and fear of premature death when life responsibilities were unfulfilled, emerged as strong facilitators of self-management behaviors. A sense of personal invincibility, Fatalism or inevitability, lack of personal threat realization, limited knowledge, inadequate health education, health care and financial constraints appeared as key barriers to the self-management of chronic disease in participants. Behavioural interventional messaging will have to engender a sense of personal vulnerability and yet empower self-efficacy solutions at the individual level to deal with both invincibility and inevitability barriers to adoption of healthy behavior.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 146 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 11%
Researcher 14 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Student > Postgraduate 11 8%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 46 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 26 18%
Social Sciences 10 7%
Psychology 9 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 3%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 49 34%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 June 2016.
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#7,476,765
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Outputs from BMC Research Notes
#1,235
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#118,602
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Research Notes
#22
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