Barriers and facilitators to accessing Non-Communicable Disease services among children, adolescents and young people with Type 1 Diabetes in Mozambique: a quantitative content analysis using the COM-B framework

The study highlights the difficulties of patients suffering from T1DM, in particular due to the lack of psychological support and inadequacies of the health services. It also points out the need to improve the training of healthcare personnel and to strengthen the health literacy of patients to improve recognition and management of the disease, respectively. Increased awareness by the community, supported by structured interventions, could also contribute to reducing stigma towards patients and improving the quality of care.