Qualitative exploration of awareness about risk factors and transformative behaviours among Pakistani patients with coronary artery disease
Rubina Barolia, Adnan Yaqoob, Laila Ladak, Aamir Hameed Khan, Furqan Yaqub Pannu · 2024
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Description
Knowing what drives heart disease does not always change daily habits. Barolia and co-authors interview twenty patients at a large public hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, each living with coronary artery disease for at least six months. They ask what the patients understand about risk factors and what changes they have actually made during recovery.
Three themes came out: lifestyle choices and behavior, growing awareness with real change, and a whole-person view of health care. Patients' accounts show both grasp of the risks and uneven follow-through. The authors say the findings support stronger health teaching and prevention, since heart disease risk is a tangle of habits, knowledge, and daily life.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rubina Barolia, Adnan Yaqoob, Laila Ladak, Aamir Hameed Khan, Furqan Yaqub Pannu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |