A) Salt reduction | ||
Category | Sub-category | Concepts |
1) Health education | Multiple educational channels | Information from extra channels (radio, church, mosque) reinforces Doctor’s effort [n = 9]* |
Relevance and local content of education messages | Counseling on available suitable local substitutes for salt, maggi – Iru ‘Locust beans’ paste [n = 9] | |
Counseling on ‘saltiness’ of meals not self-prepared – (food from canteens, social ‘parties) [n = 4] | ||
2) Local practices | Compliance easy with substitutes | ‘Iru’ cheap, easy to find [n = 9] |
3) Social support factors | Family cooperation | Readiness of other family members to adjust to meals prepared with less salt [n = 26] |
B) Weight control | ||
Category | Sub-category | Concepts |
1) Local practices | Perception of body size; weight and beauty | Societal view that being too fat means ugliness, sexual unattractiveness [n = 5] |
Perception of body size; weight and body smartness | Perception that being too fat leads to physical unfitness (can’t lift body) [n = 3] | |
Vegetable gardening and farming practice | Vegetables cheaply available and easily grown [n = 4] | |
Possibility and practice of fishing (from local rivers) | Fish easily available and more consumed than meat [n = 7] | |
C) Exercising | ||
Category | Sub-category | Concepts |
1) Social support factors | Awareness that exercise requires not much extra effort such as: | Possible to exercise using everyday activities [n = 11] |
using household chores to exercise | Sweeping, washing clothes, Pulling water from well [n = 10] | |
farming to exercise | Hoeing, shoveling, clearing bush, harvesting, gardening [n = 4] | |
transporting to exercise | Canoe paddling, bicycling, walking [n = 23] | |
preparing food to exercise | Mortar grinding/pounding, wood axing [n = 11] | |
exercising during religious worship practice/meetings | Clapping, dancing, singing, jumping, bending & rising [n = 5] | |
using leisure to exercise | Drumming, cultural dancing [n = 11] | |
2) Patient related factors | Perceived influence of exercise on hypertension | Exercising makes body light and good for BP control [n = 27] |
3) Health education | Reinforcement through education | Exposure to regular counseling on need to exercise [n = 19] |
D) Quitting/not using tobacco, alcohol, stimulants | ||
Category | Sub-category | Concepts |
Religion related factors | Faith based support (health counseling) | Abhorrence of ‘ungodly’ (unhealthy) social habits (smoking, alcohol use) by Islam and Christianity [n = 2] |
Social support factors | Gender based support (societal view) | African society frowns at the habit of women smoking or using alcohol [n = 2] |