Priyanka Sharma, Neelam Roy, Anita Verma, P Aparnavi, Aereosonova Khongsit
Knowledge, attitude, and practices about disaster preparedness among resident doctors in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Delhi, India: A cross-sectional study
Journal of emergency management (Weston, Mass.)
obesity many comorbidities improved nutritional therapy lifestyle modification pharmacotherapy surgical intervention relatively little known patients preferences range obesity treatments present study undertaken identify factors may influence preferences evaluating patientpreferred treatment options factors influencing patients treatment adherence efficacy may improved objective identify factors influence patient preferences subsequent choice obesity treatment among seeking treatment obesityrelated complications participatory action research using purposeful sampling used recruit 33 patients obesity complications recruitment took place specialist clinics nonalcoholic fatty liver disease diabetes hypertension chronic kidney disease sixteen males 17 females aged 1870 years bmi35 kgm2 recruited prior interview participants watched 60min video explaining nutritional therapies pharmacotherapies surgical therapies equipoise data collected onetoone semistructured interviews using zoom telephone reflective thematic analysis used four themes emerged 1 structural factors 2 autonomy 3 interaction formal care 4 emotional physical consequences obesity 39 participants preferred nutritional therapy support medical professionals 27 chose bariatric surgery 24 chose pharmacotherapy alone 6 chose pharmacotherapy combined nutritional therapy 3 participants wanted intervention challenges addressed increasing support healthcare professionals toward enhancing knowledge health literacy patients future research focus improving access treatment pathways patients well developing health literacy programs educational programs healthcare professionals