Table 2 Healthcare providers’ perspectives on barriers to task sharing in hypertension screening with HEWs by theme
Themes | Subthemes | |
|---|---|---|
Human resources | Human power | Low skilled HEWs (R18, R23, R24, R25) |
Material resources | Training | Lack of training (R01, R02, R03, R04, R05, R06, R07, R13, R14, R16, R19, R20, R25) |
Blood pressure measuring equipment | Lack of BP measuring equipments (R02, R03, R04, R05, R06, R08, R09, R11, R13, R14, R15, R16, R18, R20, R21, R22, R25, R26) | |
Guidelines and manuals | Unavailability of manuals and guidelines to measure BP and classify BP readings(R08, R18, R20, R24) | |
Financial incentives | Lack of financial incentives for the HEW and development army (R05, R08, R13, R18, R24, R25, R26) | |
Health system related | Supportive supervision | Lack of supportive supervision (R03, R04, R13, R14, R20) |
Community awareness | Perception about hypertensive disease | Lack of community awareness of hypertension (R06, R18, R20, R21, R24, R26) |