CRP and Anxiety: This suggests that HCWs may share the same interpretation and world views of the community although also facing constraints from policy and patients that could render lengthy communication with the patient infeasible.# Although our analysis of patient perspective, therefore, suggests that the articulation and explanation of conceptions of CRP POCT during the consultation could aid with reducing anxiety and risky behaviors, there is little doubt that such an approach would require further ethnographic research of the patient–HCW encounter in the context of CRP POCT.