Project Title: Healthcare and Socio-eonomic Impacts of COVID-19 on Patients with Diabetes in Tanzania and Kenya
Project Description: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had immense devastation in the world today. The devastations range from increased mortality, morbidity, and social economic, and physiological uncertainties. Furthermore, more than 54% of the countries around the world have experienced health services disruption. Prevention and treatment for non-communication diseases (NCDs) have been severely disrupted since the COVID-19 pandemic [WHO, 2020]. The impact is mostly higher in low-income countries. This study proposes an investigation to understand broadly... The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had immense devastation in the world today. The devastations range from increased mortality, morbidity, and social economic, and physiological uncertainties. Furthermore, more than 54% of the countries around the world have experienced health services disruption. Prevention and treatment for non-communication diseases (NCDs) have been severely disrupted since the COVID-19 pandemic [WHO, 2020]. The impact is mostly higher in low-income countries. This study proposes an investigation to understand broadly how patients with T2D have been managing their illness during the pandemic, any health care, social-economic and psychological challenges that patients have experienced, perceptions regarding the use of local herbs to manage their illness as well as attitude and acceptability of COVID-19 vaccines. Furthermore, the study will involve a review of COVID-19-related policies especially those that are related to NCD management. The study will also explore the challenges experienced by healthcare providers in managing patients with T2D during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, from the evidence, the study will support health promotion messages to create awareness in the public using the local media on diabetes type 2 management during COVID-19. Proper healthcare management of T2D, the ability to access health, social-economic, psychological services, and health information during COVID-19 is important for the well-being of people with T2D and may help protect them from the serious devastation of Covid-19. Quantitative (face-to-face questionnaire) and qualitative (in-depth interviews) methods will be employed to understand the health care service, social-economic and psychological challenges that patients with T2D experience during the COVID-19 pandemic. the study will be implemented in Dar es salaam, Morogoro town, and Ifakara town.
Principal Investigator : Sally Mtenga
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Time frame: (2021-09-08) - (2023-02-15)
Medical Research Council (MRC) (Normal)
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