Understanding health-seeking and adherence to treatment by patients with esophageal cancer at the Uganda cancer Institute: a qualitative study

Background In the low- and middle-income countries, most patients with esophageal cancer present with advanced stage disease and experience poor survival. There is inadequate understanding of the factors that influence decisions to and actual health-seeking, and adherence to treatment regimens among...

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Published in:BMC health services research 2021-02, Vol.21 (1), p.159-14, Article 159
Main Authors: Esther, Nakimuli, Julius, Ssentongo, Deogratius, Mwaka Amos
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access to care
Adherence to treatment
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Cancer patients
Cancer therapies
Care and treatment
Chemotherapy
Consent
Content analysis
Demographic aspects
Developing countries
Diagnosis
economics and financing systems
Esophageal cancer
Esophageal Neoplasms - diagnosis
Esophageal Neoplasms - therapy
expenditure
Females
Health Administration
Health behavior
Health Informatics
Health Personnel
Health services
Health-seeking
Hospitals
Humans
Interviews
LDCs
Low income groups
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Nursing Research
Patient compliance
Patients
Professional ethics
Professional-Patient Relations
Professionals
Public Health
Qualitative Research
Radiation
Research Article
Sample size
Survival analysis
Uganda
Uganda - epidemiology
Utilization
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