Table 2.
Themes (categories), subcategories, and codes related to nonmedical determinants associated with CHD in children based on mothers' perspectives.
| Theme | Subtheme | Codes |
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| Social contexts | Social harms | Father's seasonal unemployment |
| Poverty of the mother's family since childhood | ||
| Family poverty | ||
| Father alcohol consumption | ||
| Drug in parent families | ||
| Father's tobacco consumption | ||
| Father's smoking | ||
| Gender discrimination | ||
| Working mother since childhood | ||
| Social interactions | Maternal social isolation | |
| Poor social networks | ||
| Social exclusion due to migration | ||
| Social necessities | Lack of access to appropriate educational facilities | |
| Lack of proper health, treatment, and medical facilities | ||
| Lack of proper nutrition facilities | ||
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| Psychological contexts | Mood disorders | Mother's distress |
| Feeling of agitation | ||
| Dysthymia and frustration | ||
| Mental well-being | Lack of mental peace of the mother since childhood | |
| Deprivation of emotional support in mother | ||
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| Cultural contexts | Unhealthy lifestyle | Nonuse of contraception which leads to unwanted pregnancy |
| Improper use of drugs | ||
| Disregard to medical measures | ||
| Childbearing without background knowledge | ||
| Indifference to the existence of congenital disorders in families | ||
| Family culture | Forced childbearing | |
| Mother's second marriage | ||
| Parental consanguineous marriage | ||
| Kinship marriage of relatives | ||
| Prevent of education | ||
| Crowded family | ||
| Humiliation of woman in the family | ||
| Improper parental health behaviors | Maternal pregnancy after abortion | |
| Lack of timely information about the child's illness | ||
| Lack of following up and treatment of former congenital anomalies | ||
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| Environmental contexts | Living area | Very hot weather in the living area |
| Crowded neighborhood | ||
| Polluted air | Lack of safe drinking water | |
| The presence of dust in the air | ||
| Dusty air | ||