Table 2 The coding frame
Global theme | Organising theme | Basic theme identified in the interviews | |
|---|---|---|---|
Healthcare | Access | GPs and pharmacies are accessible. Helpless/mistrust towards the GPs/ cultural barrier. | |
Understand | Knowing how to use prescriptions. Language barriers with understanding the leaflets. Struggle with understanding health insurance. | ||
Process/Appraise | Acknowledging that doctors are the main source of medical information. | ||
Knowing when to seek care/ ability to distinguish between the symptoms. Understanding the restrictions on over prescribing medicines. | |||
Apply | Knowing how to contact the emergency. Consuming the medicines as the doctor instructed. | ||
Disease prevention | Access | Harmful consequences of smoking, drinking and physical inactivity. Acknowledging the role of mental therapy. | |
Understand | Lack of knowing the physical health consequences of alcoholism. Insufficient knowledge about vaccinations. Postponing seeking mental therapy. Understanding early screening/full check-ups. | ||
Process/Appraise | Knowing what screening to take. | ||
Apply | Taking the necessary vaccines. Undergoing early screening. Quitting unhealthy habits. | ||
Health promotion | Access | Emphasis on a healthy balanced diet/ fruits and vegetables. Emphasis on organic food. Emphasis on exercising. Ability to manage and improve mental health. Understanding health-friendly neighbourhoods. Understating collective responsibility. | |
Understand | Inadequate understanding of food labelling. Importance of health at the workplace. | ||
Process/Appraise | The impact of housing conditions on health. Discerning the stress of trauma, language barrier, lengthy asylum bureaucracy, unemployment and family separation. | ||
Apply | Joining sports clubs/ sports lessons/ self exercising. Reading food labels to keep a healthy diet. | ||