Anant Kamath
Anant's training lies in social science and development studies, and his specialisation lies in innovation and technological change. His research so far has employed an economic-sociology approach to understanding technological experiences and outcomes, and to critique technology policy.Anant has served as faculty in the School of Development at Azim Premji University, Bangalore, for six years. He has published in various Indian and international peer reviewed journals, and has attended several conferences and seminars all over the world. He completed his doctoral work at the United Nations University /MERIT (UNU-MERIT) in The Netherlands, prior to which he was with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Trivandrum, and the Madras School of Economics (MSE), Chennai.Anant is also deeply involved in western classical music in Bangalore.
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overlook the marginalised,
who demonstrate complicated,
non-linear, and unpredictable
technological experiences
in addition to intangible
technological inequalities. Only
if we improve our political and
sociological understanding of
technology can we steer it to work
towards genuine modernity
and well-being.
We conducted in-depth interviews (audio-recorded) among 22 purposively sampled patients living with chronic heart failure, diagnosed at least 4 weeks prior to the interview and 17 caregivers (n = 39) in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Southern India. We employed an inductive analytical approach using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory. Initial line-by-line coding and categorization was followed by memo writing, reflexive analysis after interviewing and analyzing four, eight and twelve patients, and at each stage further theoretical sampling was carried out until we reached thematic saturation. We used NVivo ver. 12 to analyze and organize data.
The mean age of our patients was 61 years and they represented 5 Indian states and spoke seven languages, distributed across socio-economic strata and literacy levels. We classified self-care determinants into 3 broad, simple categories and defined underlying themes namely, negative determinants (passivity, entrenched beliefs, negative affect, lack of knowledge, financial difficulties, and fatalism), intermediate factors (patient expectations, provider/hospital hopping) and facilitators or positive self-care determinants (intrinsic and extrinsic facilitators). Gender and the cultural background of patients’ upbringing appear to shape these determinants, thereby affecting self-care decision making in chronic heart failure.
We have empirically described a unique set of self-care determinants among Indian chronic heart failure patients, which in turn are shaped by economic and socio-cultural factors. Assessing for and addressing these determinants during clinical interactions through multi-factorial approaches may help improve self-care among Indian CHF patients, thus improving treatment adherence and clinical outcomes.
overlook the marginalised,
who demonstrate complicated,
non-linear, and unpredictable
technological experiences
in addition to intangible
technological inequalities. Only
if we improve our political and
sociological understanding of
technology can we steer it to work
towards genuine modernity
and well-being.
We conducted in-depth interviews (audio-recorded) among 22 purposively sampled patients living with chronic heart failure, diagnosed at least 4 weeks prior to the interview and 17 caregivers (n = 39) in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Southern India. We employed an inductive analytical approach using Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory. Initial line-by-line coding and categorization was followed by memo writing, reflexive analysis after interviewing and analyzing four, eight and twelve patients, and at each stage further theoretical sampling was carried out until we reached thematic saturation. We used NVivo ver. 12 to analyze and organize data.
The mean age of our patients was 61 years and they represented 5 Indian states and spoke seven languages, distributed across socio-economic strata and literacy levels. We classified self-care determinants into 3 broad, simple categories and defined underlying themes namely, negative determinants (passivity, entrenched beliefs, negative affect, lack of knowledge, financial difficulties, and fatalism), intermediate factors (patient expectations, provider/hospital hopping) and facilitators or positive self-care determinants (intrinsic and extrinsic facilitators). Gender and the cultural background of patients’ upbringing appear to shape these determinants, thereby affecting self-care decision making in chronic heart failure.
We have empirically described a unique set of self-care determinants among Indian chronic heart failure patients, which in turn are shaped by economic and socio-cultural factors. Assessing for and addressing these determinants during clinical interactions through multi-factorial approaches may help improve self-care among Indian CHF patients, thus improving treatment adherence and clinical outcomes.