Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa, is the geographic scope. This qualitative dataset contains transcripts from in-depth interviews exploring the lived experiences of patients managing HIV and type 2 diabetes multimorbidity. The study recruited 10 patient-participants and 6 healthcare workers from two public clinics, and interviews were guided by semi-structured questionnaires based on Shippee's Complex Cumulative Model.
Use Cases
- Analyzing patient workload and capacity based on themes from Shippee's Complex Cumulative Model mentioned in the description
- Studying barriers to integrated care for multimorbid patients based on subjective lived experiences described
- Evaluating patient and healthcare worker perspectives on service reorganization based on interview data
- Exploring the convergence of communicable and non-communicable disease management in a South African context
Strengths
- Includes perspectives from both patients (10 participants) and healthcare workers (6 participants)
- Focuses on a specific geographic and demographic context: Khayelitsha township, Cape Town
- Uses a mixed methodological approach underpinned by phenomenology and grounded theory
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic and demographic bias inherent to the purposive sampling from two clinics
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Purposive sampling and in-depth, one-on-one, semi-structured interviews
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 21:07:58; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Khayelitsha township, Cape Town, Western Cape Province, South Africa