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    Barriers to Practicing COVID-19 Preventive Behaviors Among Migrant Workers in Qatar: A Qualitative Study During the First Wave of the Pandemic

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    2022-08
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    Al-Jayyousi, Ghadir Fakhri
    Nour, Mohamed
    Suliman, Jinan
    Abed Alah, Muna
    Ali, Khaled
    Abdeen, Sami
    Al-Thani, Mohammed
    Jaffrey, Shariq
    Al-Romaihi, Hamad Eid
    Farag, Elmoubasher
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    Objectives: Manual and Craft Workers (MACWs), who constitute more than 80% of the population, were identified to be a vulnerable group to COVID-19 in Qatar. The goal of this study is to identify the limitations face MACWs in Qatar towards practicing the COVID-19 preventive measures and thereby designing behavioral change strategies. Methods: This is a qualitative research study in which individual interviews and focus group discussions were utilized for a deep understanding of the phenomenon from key informants. Four onlive individual interviews and four focus groups (n = 55) were conducted and transcribed verbatim. Inductive qualitative analysis was followed to discover the themes of the interviews. Data were analyzed using constant comparative techniques. Results: Major themes elicited from the analysis revealed that the barriers to following COVID-19 preventive behaviors among migrant workers in Qatar included barriers related to knowledge and risk perception; lifestyle and habits; nature of work and living conditions, and barriers related to health communication, diversified cultures, and languages. Conclusion: The findings would support constructing culturally sensitive health education messages and planning for effective health communication campaigns.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604881
    http://hdl.handle.net/10576/33296
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