In our study, providers perceived that only 14% of the questions pursued were difficult to answer.
Despite the high compliance in our study, providers regarded lack of participant motivation to change unhealthy habits as an important barrier for effective lifestyle counselling.
In our study, providers' sense of lack of self-efficacy is strongly bound up in the expectations of their professional role and what the meaning of successful patients' outcome is.
In our study, providers were aware of the cultural pressures associated with childlessness and appeared to find it easier to support couples or individuals with no children, compared to those with children.
51 Applying the results of our study, providers will be able to sort out ANC attendants into those who are likely to use skilled attendance at delivery and those who are unlikely to do so.
In our study, providers discussed barriers related to program and service characteristics and how these might vary by practice setting (e.g., hospital outpatient clinic, community-based multidisciplinary clinic, midwifery practice).
In our study, providers were cognizant of the sexual and reproductive rights of HIV-positive individuals but grappled with the inherent tension between supporting the right to have children and that of preventing HIV transmission to both the partner and unborn child.
For example, Provider 1 in Practice A referred to the GEM questionnaire items during the patient encounter more than any other provider in our study, while Provider 2 in the Practice A never referred to the specific questionnaire items, although he/she did refer to the administration of the GEM questionnaire.
While other studies have explored differences between patient and provider perceptions of health status [ 20, 21], our study compared provider and patient perceptions of frailty to a validated measure.
Our study found provider pluralism patterns to involve public, private and indigenous sectors, and this concurs with previous qualitative research [ 2].
