Exploring factors contributing to patient decision-making in the care journey to elective hernia care in Kenya

• Helen W. Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen W. Li, Jesse Kiprono Too, Sarah Nyanchama Nyariki, JoAnna Hunter-Squires, Ivan Seno Saruni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: helenli@wustl.edu

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Fogarty LAUNCH fellow, Northern Pacific Global Health Fellows Program, Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1437-2668

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• Jesse Kiprono Too ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen W. Li, Jesse Kiprono Too, Sarah Nyanchama Nyariki, JoAnna Hunter-Squires, Ivan Seno Saruni

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya

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• Sarah Nyanchama Nyariki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen W. Li, Jesse Kiprono Too, Sarah Nyanchama Nyariki, JoAnna Hunter-Squires, Ivan Seno Saruni

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

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya, Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), Eldoret, Kenya

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• Charles Nathan Nessle ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Fogarty LAUNCH fellow, Northern Pacific Global Health Fellows Program, Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7119-1658

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• Sara Malone ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St Louis. St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Rachel Matsumoto ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St Louis. St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Teddy Ashibende Aurah ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret, Kenya

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• Jeffrey A. Blatnik ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• JoAnna Hunter-Squires ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen W. Li, Jesse Kiprono Too, Sarah Nyanchama Nyariki, JoAnna Hunter-Squires, Ivan Seno Saruni

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America, Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), Eldoret, Kenya

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• Ivan Seno Saruni

  Contributed equally to this work with: Helen W. Li, Jesse Kiprono Too, Sarah Nyanchama Nyariki, JoAnna Hunter-Squires, Ivan Seno Saruni

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), Eldoret, Kenya, Department of Surgery, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya

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