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. 2021 Aug 17;2021:6647260. doi: 10.1155/2021/6647260

Table 2.

Themes (categories), subcategories, and codes related to nonmedical determinants associated with CHD in children based on mothers' perspectives.

Theme Subtheme Codes
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

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

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

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