Exploring the workload of informal caregiving in the context of HIV/NCD multimorbidity in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: The importance of informal caregiving for chronic illness has been well established in African contexts but is underexplored in the context of HIV/NCD multimorbidity, particularly in South Africa. Building on treatment burden theories that investigate workload in the context of chronic illness, this paper explores how informal caregiving networks impact the capacity of people living with multimorbidity (PLWMM) in low-income settings in urban and rural South Africa. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were carried out with thirty people living with multimorbidity and sixteen informal caregivers between February and April 2021 in two settings, Cape Town (urban) and Bulungula (rural). Interviews were transcribed and data analysed both inductively and deductively using framework analysis, h

SUBMITTER: van Pinxteren M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11460685 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature