Mohammad Gholami1, Masoud Fallahi Khoshknab2, Sadat Seyed Bagher Maddah1, Fazlollah Ahmadi3, Hamidreza Khankeh1. 1. Nursing Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (USWR), Tehran, Iran. 2. Nursing Department, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences (USWR), Tehran, Iran. Electronic address: msflir@yahoo.com. 3. Nursing Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-331, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Providing patients with health care information is a critical component of the process of cardiovascular disease (CVD) management. The purpose of this study was to explore obstacles to seeking health care information among cardiovascular patients from the perspectives of patients, their family caregivers, and health care providers. METHODS: This study was conducted with a qualitative approach using conventional qualitative content analysis. The study included 31 Iranian participants including 16 cardiovascular patients, 5 family members, and 10 health care providers (multidisciplinary). Data were collected with semi-structured interviews and continued to the point of data saturation. Analysis of the data was performed continually and concurrently with data collection of using a comparative method. RESULTS: Five themes emerged including 'poor quality of information provision,' 'mutual ambiguity,' 'beliefs, faith, and expectations,' 'from routine life to obtaining information,' and 'conditions governing information seekers.' Seven sub-themes indicated participants' experiences and understandings of obstacles in health care information seeking. CONCLUSION: Health care information seeking in cardiovascular patients and their family members occurs as a result of the influence of beliefs, interaction with numerous information sources, and in the context and structure that the care and information are provided. Understanding the nature of obstacles to health information seeking will help health care policy makers to provide evidence-based, reliable, and patient-centered information to encourage cardiovascular patients' involvement in treatment decisions.
OBJECTIVE: Providing patients with health care information is a critical component of the process of cardiovascular disease (CVD) management. The purpose of this study was to explore obstacles to seeking health care information among cardiovascularpatients from the perspectives of patients, their family caregivers, and health care providers. METHODS: This study was conducted with a qualitative approach using conventional qualitative content analysis. The study included 31 Iranian participants including 16 cardiovascularpatients, 5 family members, and 10 health care providers (multidisciplinary). Data were collected with semi-structured interviews and continued to the point of data saturation. Analysis of the data was performed continually and concurrently with data collection of using a comparative method. RESULTS: Five themes emerged including 'poor quality of information provision,' 'mutual ambiguity,' 'beliefs, faith, and expectations,' 'from routine life to obtaining information,' and 'conditions governing information seekers.' Seven sub-themes indicated participants' experiences and understandings of obstacles in health care information seeking. CONCLUSION: Health care information seeking in cardiovascularpatients and their family members occurs as a result of the influence of beliefs, interaction with numerous information sources, and in the context and structure that the care and information are provided. Understanding the nature of obstacles to health information seeking will help health care policy makers to provide evidence-based, reliable, and patient-centered information to encourage cardiovascularpatients' involvement in treatment decisions.
Authors: Angela Odero; Manon Pongy; Louis Chauvel; Bernard Voz; Elisabeth Spitz; Benoit Pétré; Michèle Baumann Journal: Int J Environ Res Public Health Date: 2020-11-15 Impact factor: 3.390