Development of a qualitative data analysis codebook for arterial hypertension and type-2-diabetes integrated care evaluation

Zavrnik, Črt (author), Stojnić, Nataša (author), Mori-Lukančič, Majda (author), Martens, Monika (author), Danhieux, Katrien (author), Chham, Savina (author), Mihevc, Matic (author), Virtič, Tina (author), Klemenc-Ketiš, Zalika (author), Van Olmen, Josefien (author), Poplas-Susič, Tonka (author)

Introduction: Non-communicable diseases, such as arterial hypertension (HTN) and type-2 diabetes (T2D), pose a global public health problem. Integrated care with focus on person-centred principles aims to enhance healthcare quality and access. Previous qualitative research has identified facilitators and barriers for scaling-up integrated care, however the lack of standardized terms and measures hinder cross-country comparisons. This paper addresses these gaps by presenting a generic codebook for qualitative research on integrated care implementation for HTN and T2D. Description: The codebook serves as a tool for deductive or deductive-inductive qualitative analysis, organizing concepts and themes from qualitative data. It consists of nine first level and 39 second level themes. First level codes cover core issues; and second level codes provide detailed insights into facilitators and barriers. Discussion: This codebook is more widely applicable than previously developed tools because it includes a broader scope of stakeholders across micro, meso, and macro levels, and the themes being derived from highly diverse health systems across high- and low-income countries. Conclusion: The codebook is a useful tool for implementation research on integrated care for HTN and T2D at global scale. It facilitates cross-country learning, contributing to improved implementation, scale-up and outcomes.

• Language: English
• Keywords: arterial hypertension, codebook, qualitative analysis, type-2-diabetes
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: MF - Faculty of Medicine
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 10 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 24, iss. 1, art. 20
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-182407
• UDC: 616.379
• ISSN on article: 1568-4156
• DOI: 10.5334/ijic.7691
• COBISS.SI-ID: 191601411
• Publication date in RUL: 11.05.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of integrated care
• Publisher: Ubiquity Press
• ISSN: 1568-4156
• COBISS.SI-ID: 517928217

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: arterijska hipertenzija, šifrant, kvalitativne analize, sladkorna bolezen, tip 2

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020
• Project number: 825432
• Name: SCale Up an integrated care package for diaBetes and hYpertension for vulnerable people in Cambodia, Slovenia and Belgium
• Acronym: SCUBY