The 85 item self-administered questionnaire addressed areas of health service utilisation, attitudes to CAM, health status and demographics.
Relationships between yoga use (attending yoga classes and/or practising yoga at home) and women's characteristics (demographic measures, pregnancy-related health concerns, health service utilisation, attitudes to complementary and alternative medicine).
The focus of the current study is on the 'mid-age' cohort, aged 60 65 at the time of data collection, and was designed to explore women's experiences of back pain, consultation practices, health service utilisation, attitudes towards treatment options and health status more broadly.
Secondary outcomes include the incidence of chronic LBP, disability, pain intensity, depression, healthcare utilisation, pain attitudes and beliefs, global recovery and recurrence and are measured at 1 week post-intervention, and at 3, 6 and 12 months post LBP onset.
Some captured health outcomes, such as physical functioning, which the study authors anticipated may be affected by the SMI; others attempted to capture behaviours, such as resource utilisation or attitudes, such as changes in self-efficacy thought to be associated with self-management processes.
Data were obtained through structured interview that covered various reproductive and sexual issues, including sexual behaviour, knowledge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), condom perception and use, family planning (FP) attitudes and utilisation, gender-based violence, safe motherhood and communication.
We also extracted data on other outcomes, including measures of: health service utilisation; health status; attitude or satisfaction of vulnerable population; costs of the interventions; and any reported adverse effects.
The questionnaire was specifically designed to establish the level of involvement in research, the utilisation of research findings, attitudes towards research and perceived barriers to active research involvement.
The distribution of respondents regarding HIV-related knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and utilisation of HCT services was assessed.
The analysis examined the relationship between the outcome of interest (tested for HIV) and the independent variables of socio-demographic characteristics, HIV-related knowledge, perceptions, attitudes, and utilisation of HCT services.
Data analysis was underpinned by Andersen's model of healthcare use as a theoretical framework (described later) and women's experiences resonated particularly with the four psychosocial domains affecting access and utilisation of healthcare services: attitudes, knowledge, social norms and perceived control.
