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Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran
BACKGROUND: Health service utilization among people living with HIV is vital for their survival and quality of life. This study aims to exploring the determinants influencing health service utilization among people living with HIV. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study involving 16 men and women...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10694986/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10321-0 |
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author | SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Karimi, Salah Eddin Ahmadi, Sina Irandoost, Seyed Fahim Amirkafi, Ali Azimi, Amir |
author_facet | SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Karimi, Salah Eddin Ahmadi, Sina Irandoost, Seyed Fahim Amirkafi, Ali Azimi, Amir |
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description | BACKGROUND: Health service utilization among people living with HIV is vital for their survival and quality of life. This study aims to exploring the determinants influencing health service utilization among people living with HIV. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study involving 16 men and women aged 18–64 living with HIV in Tehran. Data were collected between September and December 2021 through semi-structured interviews conducted via telephone and online platforms, utilizing the purposeful sampling method. Data were analyzed by MAXQDA-2018 software using conventional content analysis approaches and the Granheim and Landman method. RESULTS: Two main themes, seven categories, and 21 subcategories were obtained from the interviews. The main themes included facilitators of health service utilization (positive personality traits, social factors, and structural-behavioral determinants) and inhibitors of health service utilization (personal conditions, insufficient knowledge and understanding of the disease, negative consequences of disease disclosure, and difficult access to services). CONCLUSION: This study underscores the need to invest and expand specialized services for people living with HIV by policy makers, while simultaneously increasing public awareness to reduce the social stigma. |
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spelling | pubmed-106949862023-12-05 Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Karimi, Salah Eddin Ahmadi, Sina Irandoost, Seyed Fahim Amirkafi, Ali Azimi, Amir BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: Health service utilization among people living with HIV is vital for their survival and quality of life. This study aims to exploring the determinants influencing health service utilization among people living with HIV. METHODS: We conducted a qualitative study involving 16 men and women aged 18–64 living with HIV in Tehran. Data were collected between September and December 2021 through semi-structured interviews conducted via telephone and online platforms, utilizing the purposeful sampling method. Data were analyzed by MAXQDA-2018 software using conventional content analysis approaches and the Granheim and Landman method. RESULTS: Two main themes, seven categories, and 21 subcategories were obtained from the interviews. The main themes included facilitators of health service utilization (positive personality traits, social factors, and structural-behavioral determinants) and inhibitors of health service utilization (personal conditions, insufficient knowledge and understanding of the disease, negative consequences of disease disclosure, and difficult access to services). CONCLUSION: This study underscores the need to invest and expand specialized services for people living with HIV by policy makers, while simultaneously increasing public awareness to reduce the social stigma. BioMed Central 2023-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10694986/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10321-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research SoleimanvandiAzar, Neda Karimi, Salah Eddin Ahmadi, Sina Irandoost, Seyed Fahim Amirkafi, Ali Azimi, Amir Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran |
title | Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran |
title_full | Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran |
title_fullStr | Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran |
title_short | Exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with HIV: a qualitative study in Iran |
title_sort | exploring the determinants of health service utilization among people living with hiv: a qualitative study in iran |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10694986/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-10321-0 |
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