What is it about?
Due to the lockdown provoked by the COVID pandemic last years, Chilean healthcare centers closed. This restricted healthcare access to people having no-communicable chronic diseases (diabetes, hipertension, and cholesterol problems), who visited medical centers to make their routine check-ups, to receive advice about healthy behaviors, to do physical activity, and other activities. We wanted to know how some social and demographic characteristics affect self-management of non-communicable chronic diseases.
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Why is it important?
This study is important for both, healthcare policy makers and common people to know what individual characteristics may enhance or harm self-management of non-communicable chronic diseases, when healthcare access may be restricted due to social, political, or epidemic restrictions.
Perspectives
Our study and this paper helped people with non-communicable diseases to keep some contact during the lockdown, to hear their perspectives and decisions, and to know how they managed their diseases and felt during the lockdown. We hope that this study give some advice to policy makers and people to know what individual characteristics and behaviors may be promoted to improve self-management of non-communicable chronic diseases.
Rodrigo Retamal
Universidad de Chile
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This page is a summary of: Effects of sociodemographic and health factors on the self-management of non-communicable diseases among Chilean adults during the Covid-19 pandemic, PLOS Global Public Health, July 2022, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000763.
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