Table 2.
Themes analysed according to hierarchy of evidence for practice (Daly et al.) [22] and frequency.
| THEME | Level 1 Refs [27,28,29,30,31,32,33] |
Level 2 Refs [8,26] |
Level 3 Refs [9,10,34] |
Level 4 Refs [25,36] |
Totals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations * | Citations * | Citations * | Citations * | ||
| Sociological factors | |||||
| Lived realities | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 19 |
| Experiences of power differences and racism | 10 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 21 |
| Indigenous culture, knowledge and strengths | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| Disease specific factors | |||||
| Disease specific and traumatic impact of RHD (sociolinguistic analysis) | 43 ǂ | 1 | 8 | 7 | NA ǂ |
| Experiences of medications and adherence | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 22 |
| Experiences of pain | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
| Health Service domain | |||||
| Inadequate delivery of health services | 7 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 17 |
| Health communication | 14 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 27 |
| Factors contributing to positive experiences of health-care | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 21 |
* Citations—number of times content related to the theme appears in the reviewed literature. Table A2 Provides references numbers according to sub-themes. ǂ The subtheme ‘Disease specific and traumatic impact of RHD’ is based on a sociolinguistic analysis (a unique methodology) and therefore should not be compared to the weightings given to the other themes.