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Table 2 Patient focus group guide

From: Knowledge, attitudes, practices, and barriers reported by patients receiving diabetes and hypertension primary health care in Barbados: a focus group study

Domain

Topic

Knowledge

⇒ Of their disease (diabetes and/or hypertension)

⇒ Guidelines and protocols

⇒ Sources of knowledge

Attitudes

⇒ Towards their disease

⇒ Towards the care received

⇒ Of their families and communities

Practices

⇒ Managing and coping with their disease

Barriers

⇒ Faced when caring for themselves

⇒ In day-to-day life because of their disease

⇒ Recommendations for changes within and outside the health care sector that would help them achieve better health.