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Table 5 Intervention-Context-Actor-Mechanism-Outcome configurations: Case Z

From: Unearthing how, why, for whom and under what health system conditions the antiretroviral treatment adherence club intervention in South Africa works: A realist theory refining approach

Intervention modalities

Context

Actor

Mechanism

Outcome

Club rules and regulation

- Integration of HIV treatment with other chronic diseases of lifestyle

- Unconducive environment

- Lack of resources

- Presence of non-HIV positive patients

- Patient

- Perceived stigma

- Poor knowledge of club rules and regulations

- Perceived absence of punitive measures

- Inadvertent disclosure of HIV status

- Poor attendance at club appointments

Group dynamics

- Unconducive environment

- Lack of resources

- Experimenting various execution models

- Patient

- Group

- Perceived lack of social support

- Feeling of frustration related to loss of group dynamics

- Reduced adherence related to constant changes and disruptions in group dynamics

Health talks/education

- Lack of resources

- Presence of non-HIV positive patients

- Unconducive environment

- Patient

- Perceived inadequacy

- Reduced self-efficacy leading to poor retention in care and medication adherence

- Inadvertent disclosure of HIV status

Quick medication access

- Unconducive environment

- Lack of resources

- Experimenting various execution models

- Patient

- Perceived benefit

- Perceived stigma

- Adherence to medication related to medication availability

- Poor adherence resulting from poor club attendance

Prompt continuity of care

- Poor adherence club programme coordination and execution

- Clinicians

- Patient

- Role confusion

- Dissatisfaction

- Reduced rate of retention in care

Club facilitator-patient relationship

- Unconducive environment

- Lack of health talks and counselling sessions

- Facilitator

- Patient

- Trust

- Perceived lack of support

- Poor adherence to medication

- Poor retention in care

Overall intervention

- Unconducive environment

- Lack of resources

- Experimenting various execution models

- Presence of non-HIV positive patients

- Experimenting various execution models

- Poor adherence club programme coordination

- Patients

- Club teams

- Demotivation

- Frustration

- Confusion

- Reduced attendance at club sessions

- Poor retention in care

- Reduced medication adherence rates