Table 2 Result of data analysis (motivations for LSM after IHD)
From: Why do patients with ischemic heart disease modify their lifestyle? a qualitative study
Theme | Categories | Subcategories | Examples of codes |
|---|---|---|---|
Seeking wise survival | Interest and fear | - Family interest | - Interest in continue family life, interest in a young child, interest in a disabled child. |
- Preferred activities | - Interest in climbing, interest in carpentry, interest in gardening. | ||
- Rational fear of death and disability | - Fear of being a burden, fear of sudden death, fear of seeing health complications in peers. | ||
- Fear of recurrence painful experiences | - Preventing heart pain recurrence, guilt from an unhealthy lifestyle, and painful heart surgery experiences | ||
Comprehensive recommendations | - Motivational advice | - Motivational recommendations from healthcare workers, motivational recommendations of family members, caring recommendations from friends. | |
- Positive expectation | - Personal and external expectations for being an athlete, Expectations for yourself and others due to being healthcare professionals. | ||
- Perception of disease severity | - The perceived threat of the illness, the sense of deteriorating disease complications, and the contemplation of suicide if unable to adhere to the prescribed lifestyle | ||
Individual and social benefits | - Time and cost savings | - Trying to reduce medical costs, reducing wasted time in seeking medical services, and reducing costs in modified life. | |
- Social responsibility | - Surviving to provide social responsibilities, surviving to compensate the efforts of relatives | ||
- Belief in lifestyle modification benefits | - Belief in compensation for past losses, belief in the benefits of prevention over treatment, belief in the harmfulness of smoking, and the advantages of quitting. |