Table 3 Perceived barriers to maintaining and engaging in a maintenance care plan
From: The nordic maintenance care program: patient experience of maintenance care—a qualitative study
Subcategories | Categories | Themes | Dimension |
|---|---|---|---|
Time consuming care | Considerable personal investment | Does the benefit of maintenance care outweigh the cost? | When maintenance care is of low value |
Cost demanding | |||
Questionable benefit of care | Is it worth it? | ||
A sense of low value | |||
Only one aspect of a wider need | |||
Perceived as unavailable | Limited accessibility | Is maintenance care accessible? | |
Logistical challenges | |||
Inherent cultural and social beliefs | Perceived as separate from mainstream care | ||
Not part of the system | |||
Lack of knowledge regarding MC | |||
Intimacy and personal space | A feeling of inadequate patient-doctor relationship | Is maintenance care being delivered in a way which is congruent with a patient-centered perspective? | |
Communication, trust and report | |||
Sensation of retention | |||
Undesired reaction | Unpleasant feelings and experiences associated with care | ||
Fear of treatment |