A qualitative assessment of diabetes care access and disease management in Central America

Development of a Qualitative Data Analysis Codebook for Arterial Hypertension and Type-2-Diabetes Integrated Care Evaluation

“…Although the implementation of HTN and T2D integrated care has been qualitatively extensively studied worldwide, and therefore many different codebooks have been developed and used in the analysis processes, the codebook presented in this paper has many advantages. First, unlike many other similar studies that focus mainly on the view on the perspectives of only one or two different stakeholder groups (e.g., patients and health professionals) on the integrated care of HTN and T2D [12,15,[36][37][38][39], our study used a broader sample of different stakeholders at the micro, meso, and macro levels. Consequently, their different perspectives on the topic due to their different (professional) backgrounds and entry points into the health care process helped to broaden the scope of the codebook.…”

“…Implementation research plays a crucial role in the scale-up of integrated care for non-communicable diseases. The implementation of integrated care and the identification of facilitators and barriers in different settings have been extensively studied in previous research using quantitative, qualitative, and mixedmethods [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The wide variety of terms, measures, and infrequent use of common sets in literature related to integrated care of chronic conditions makes it difficult to compare different implementation research projects [17].…”

“…Additionally, concepts may be embedded within various themes across different papers, such as the incorporation of Access to medication into themes like Barriers to diabetes management or Pharmaceutical. [12][13][14]16].…”