The barriers and facilitators to health-promoting lifestyle behaviors among people with multiple sclerosis during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic : a content analysis study

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BACKGROUND AND AIM: Health-promoting lifestyle behaviors (HPLBs) have a significant impact on disease management among people with multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly affected lifestyle of all individuals, particularly patients with chronic diseases. The present study aimed to explore the barriers and facilitators to HPLBs among people with MS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

METHODS: This qualitative study was conducted in Iran. Participants were sixteen people with MS purposively selected from the central MS clinic of a referral specialty neuroscience hospital in Tehran, Iran. Data were collected via in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews and concurrently analyzed through conventional content analysis.

FINDINGS: The mean of participants' age was 37.93 years and most participants were female (81.25%). The major barriers to HPLBs were lack of knowledge, limited access to resources, and poor health status, while the major facilitators were attention to inner abilities and social support.

CONCLUSION: Many different factors such as lack of knowledge, limited access to resources, poor health status, awareness, and social support can influence engagement in HPLBs among people with MS. Healthcare authorities and policymakers need to use quality educational and supportive interventions to improve knowledge, health literacy, perceived support, self-efficacy, and self-care ability among people with MS during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

BMC neurology - 22(2022), 1 vom: 19. Dez., Seite 490

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Salmani, Soheileddin [VerfasserIn]
Mousavi, Seyyed Hossein [VerfasserIn]
Navardi, Samira [VerfasserIn]
Hosseinzadeh, Fatemeh [VerfasserIn]
Pashaeypoor, Shahzad [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Barriers
Facilitators
Health-promoting lifestyle
Journal Article
Multiple sclerosis

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Date Completed 21.12.2022

Date Revised 23.12.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12883-022-03019-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350480958