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Table 2 Theoretical framework of acceptability constructs and codes

From: The acceptability of integrated healthcare services for HIV and non-communicable diseases: experiences from patients and healthcare workers in Tanzania

Construct

Meaning

Codes from the findings

Affective attitude

How an individual feels about the intervention

Satisfaction with integrated model and its pathways

Ethicality

The extent to which the intervention has a good fit with an individual value system.

Client provider relationship, privacy, and confidentiality

Intervention coherence

The extent to which the participant understands the intervention and how it works.

Understanding of the model design and services delivered

Perceived effectiveness

The extent to which the intervention is perceived as likely to achieve its purpose.

Availability of quality of services; increased awareness and improved health status

Self-efficacy

Participant ‘confidence’ that they can perform the behaviour required to participate in the intervention

Comfort with sitting arrangement, freedom of movement; making discussion, fixing clinic appointment and medicine adherence

Burden

Amount of effort that is required to participate in the intervention

waiting time; cost related to services and time saving; and medicine availability

Opportunity cost

The extent to which benefits, profits or values must be given up engaging in the intervention.

Transport costs, distance, access to medicines; changing of clinic schedule; managing multiple information system

  1. Ref: Sekhon and colleagues [22]:8