‘I think my body has become addicted to those tablets’. Chronic heart failure patients’ understanding of and beliefs about their illness and its treatment: A qualitative longitudinal study from Uganda

• Elizabeth Namukwaya ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liznam2002@yahoo.co.uk

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5241-2742

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• Scott A. Murray,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Primary Palliative Care Research Group, The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Julia Downing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Mhoira Leng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Liz Grant

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Academy, The Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences & Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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