Background
Nepal’s disease burden is changing as incidence of non-communicable diseases has risen and is expected to increase further in the near future. It is learnt that the incidence of type 2 diabetes in Nepal varied substantially between urban and rural areas. The prevalence is high in urban areas. In urban areas, many do not sustain the recommended level of physical activity, particularly women. Most physical activity is related to work or occupational activities, but work activities that are physically demanding, such as agriculture, are also decreasing. In the context of traditionally urban Nepal, physically active leisure-time activities, such as sports and exercise, are associated more frequently with youth or modern culture. With an increasing awareness of the importance of addressing type 2 diabetes and other NCDs in Nepal it is important that research is conducted on the barriers and motivators for healthy lifestyles to inform an integrated approach to reducing and preventing type 2 diabetes.
Project Objectives
General Objective
- To develop the knowledge base about capabilities, opportunities and motivations to have a healthy lifestyle among urban diabetes patients, to inform theory based local health promotion initiatives
Specific Objective
- To describe the barriers and facilitating factors to maintaining a healthy lifestyle among diabetes patients in Kathmandu
- To explore how these barriers and facilitators vary between genders
- To develop recommendations for the implementation of interventions to promote healthy lifestyles among diabetes patients g or generating an income shapes/alters (both positively and negatively) the forms of violence that women experience, and how it affects their levels of vulnerability.
Associated Team Members
Abriti Arjyal
Research Manager - Qualitative and Multidisciplinary ScienceAbriti Arjyal
Research Manager - Qualitative and Multidisciplinary ScienceAppointed as the lead of Research, Innovation and Development Department Key Expertise Ms. Abriti Arjyal works as Research Manager – Multidisciplinary Qualitative Research – at HERD International and has experience in the area of public health, health system and service delivery research, social science and gender, and equity. She is an emerging young researcher with more than seven years of experience leading formative and operational field studies, evaluation studies, and literature reviews, with expertise in design and implementation of qualitative research, and [...]
Learn moreProject Location
Similar Projects
Background The growing numbers of urban poor around the world face several health challenges including the double burden of diseases, ...
HERD in partnership with IMC Worldwide and University of Portsmouth (UoP) in UK and the International Centre for Research on Women ...
Background: In emergency situations, women of childbearing age do not stop becoming pregnant or giving birth. Humanitarian emergencies ...
Background Infant and neonatal mortality rates are regarded as important indicators of country’s socioeconomic development and ...
INSPIRE2CARE PROGRAM – A comprehensive study of household, health facility and disability assessment
Background Good health and wellbeing is one of the key component for sustainable development. Due to concerted efforts from government ...
Innovation Fund is the scheme provisioned by CHORUS Research Project Consortium. The fund is targeted to early and mid-career ...
Background The growing numbers of urban poor around the world face several health challenges including the double burden of ...
Background Medic mobile (MM) has been working towards improving the health outcomes of people, to be precise, disadvantaged community ...
This formative research explores knowledge, access and use of fertility and Family Planning (FP) services among married men and women ...