Assessing COVID-19 pandemic's impact on essential diabetes care in Manila, the Philippines: A mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic directly increased mortality and morbidity globally. In addition, it has had extensive indirect ill effects on healthcare service delivery across health systems worldwide. We aimed to describe how patient access to diabetes care was affected by the pandemic in Manila, the Philippines. We used an explanatory, sequential mixed method approach including a cross-sectional survey (n = 150) and in-depth interviews of patients (n = 19), focus group discussions of healthcare workers (n = 22), and key informant interviews of health facility administrators (n = 3) from October 2021 to January 2022. Larger proportions of patients reported absence of livelihood (67.3%), being in the lowest average monthly household income group (17.3%), and disruptions in diabetes care (54.0%) du

SUBMITTER: Malijan GMB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805280 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature