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Ashraf Samavat
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Review Article
Help-seeking Behaviours among Haemophilia Community in Central Iran: A Qualitative Study
Author(s): Mehrdad Zeinalian, Effat Merghati-Khoei, Sayyed Ali Azin, Ashraf Samavat and Morteza Hashemzadeh-ChaleshtoriMehrdad Zeinalian, Effat Merghati-Khoei, Sayyed Ali Azin, Ashraf Samavat and Morteza Hashemzadeh-Chaleshtori
Objectives: Impressive factors affecting help-seeking behaviours and its construction have a determinant role to design health interventions; therefore we run a qualitative study to explore them for the first time before implementing Iranian Program for Control and Prevention of Haemophilia (IPCPH) in Iran. Methods: We applied an ethnographic approach in this study. Participants were 61 haemophilia patients and their first degree relatives in Isfahan Province (center of Iran). We organized them in 7 Focus Groups Discussions (FGD). Data analysis was performed using thematic and discourse analysis. Results: We explored some impressive factors affecting help-seeking behaviours of the participants including: self-efficacy, isolation and privacy concluded from stigmatization, religious beliefs, gender-based discrimination, and familial .. View More»
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9864.1000214