作者
Kavita Singh, Aprajita Kaushik, Leslie Johnson, Suganthi Jaganathan, Prashant Jarhyan, Mohan Deepa, Sandra Kong, Nikhil Srinivasapura Venkateshmurthy, Dimple Kondal, Sailesh Mohan, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Mohammed K Ali, Nikhil Tandon, KM Venkat Narayan, Viswanathan Mohan, Karen Eggleston, Dorairaj Prabhakaran
发表日期
2021/6/1
期刊
BMJ open
卷号
11
期号
6
页码范围
e048926
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Objective
People with chronic conditions are known to be vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to describe patients’ lived experiences, challenges faced by people with chronic conditions, their coping strategies, and the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Design, setting and participants
We conducted a qualitative study using a syndemic framework to understand the patients’ experiences of chronic disease care, challenges faced during the lockdown, their coping strategies and mitigators during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of socioecological and biological factors. A diverse sample of 41 participants with chronic conditions (hypertension, diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular diseases) from four sites (Delhi, Haryana, Vizag and Chennai) in India participated in semistructured interviews. All interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, translated, anonymised and coded …
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