Patient-provider experiences with chronic non-communicable disease care during COVID-19 lockdowns in rural Uganda: A qualitative analysis.

ABSTRACT: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a growing health burden in Sub-Saharan Africa and especially Uganda, where they account for over one third of all deaths. During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health control measures such as societal "lockdowns" had a significant impact on longitudinal NCD care though no studies have looked at the lived experience around NCD care during the pandemic. Our objective was to understand the experience of NCD care for both patients and providers in southwestern Uganda during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted in-depth, in-person qualitative interviews with 20 patients living with hypertension, diabetes, and/or cardiac disease purposefully selected from the outpatient clinics at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital and 11 healthcare providers from public health

SUBMITTER: Olds PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10721044 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature