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Table 2 Key themes and sub themes

From: Nurses’ and clients’ perspectives after engagement in the co-designing of solutions to improve provider-client relationships in maternal and child healthcare: a human-centered design study in rural Tanzania

Theme

Subtheme(s)/descriptions

Key learnings from the co-design process

• Both nurses and clients as contributors to sour therapeutic relationship

• Benefits of good therapeutic relationships extend to the health sector

• Interventions for improving nurse-client relationship need to focus to nurses, clients, and health sector

Benefits of co-design approach

• Innovative way of jointly designing solutions

• Facilitate designing of effective and impactful solutions

• Simple, effective, friendly, and feasible

• Offers opportunity for co-learning among parties

Co-designing as a tool for behaviour change and personal commitment

• Create awareness of individual weakness and areas for improvement

• Shape behaviors before actual implementation of solutions

• Shape personal commitment to make changes in their practices