Acceptability of patient-centered hypertension education delivered by community health workers among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda

Table 2 Acceptance of patient-centered education delivered by CHW. A summary of the themes and Sekhon’s TFA construct

TFA construct	Subthemes	Facilitator or barrier status
Affective attitude	Rapport already exists	Facilitator
Affective attitude	CHW uses a non-technical language	Facilitator
Self-efficacy and burden^a	Highly motivated	Facilitator
	Inaccessibility of the health facility	Barrier
	Financial stress	Barrier
Perceived effectiveness and intervention coherence ^a	Potential health outcomes	Facilitator
	Understandable material	Facilitator
	Difficulty in keeping up with the technical details in PocketDoktor™	Barrier
Opportunity costs and Ethicality^a	Health is a priority	Facilitator
Opportunity costs and Ethicality^a	Availability of time	Facilitator

^aquotes and sub-themes in these constructs overlapped and thus presented jointly

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