ArticleBMJ quality & safety2019
Patients' perspectives on how to decrease the burden of treatment: a qualitative study of HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Decreasing patient-reported burden of treatment: A systematic review of quantitative interventional studies.PloS one · 2021Pooled it
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- Shared decision-making between health care providers and patients at a tertiary hospital diabetic Clinic in Tanzania.BMC health services research · 2021Article
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- Understanding implementation barriers in the national scale-up of differentiated ART delivery in Uganda.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- Exploring the Patterns of Use and Acceptability of Mobile Phones Among People Living With HIV to Improve Care and Treatment: Cross-Sectional Study in Three Francophone West African Countries.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- Patients' perspective on how to improve the care of people with chronic conditions in France: a citizen science study within the ComPaRe e-cohort.BMJ quality & safety · 2019Article
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Abstract
objectivePatients living with HIV infection (PLWH) in sub-Saharan Africa face an important burden of treatment related to everything they do to take care of their health: doctor visits, tests, regular refills, travels, and so on. In this study, we involved PLWH in proposing ideas on how to decrease their burden of treatment and assessed to what extent these propositions could be implemented in care.
methodsAdult PLWH recruited in three HIV care centres in Côte d'Ivoire participated in qualitative interviews starting with '
resultsBetween February and April 2017, 326 participants shared 748 ideas to decrease their burden of treatment. These ideas were grouped into 59 unique patient propositions to improve their personal care and the organisation of their hospital or clinic and/or the health system. Experts considered that 27 (46%), 19 (32%) and 13 (22%) of patients' propositions were easy, moderate and difficult, respectively, to implement. A total of 118 (36%) participants offered at least one proposition considered easily implementable by our experts.
conclusionAsking PLWH in sub-Saharan Africa about how their care could be improved led to identifying meaningful propositions. According to experts, half of the ideas identified could be implemented easily at low cost for minimally disruptive HIV care.
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