People's Perceptions Research Articles

Perceived myths and misconceptions about myocardial infarction among adults in Saudi Arabia

Background: Myocardial infarction (MI), a widespread public health issue, is causing high mortality rates in Saudi Arabia. Good awareness about MI can improve outcomes for patients, and conversely, misconceptions can lead to delay in seeking treatment and affect patients’ compliance to preventive measures. Therefore, this study aims to assess the perception and beliefs of people in Saudi Arabia regarding myths about this issue. Methods: A cross-sectional survey using an online questionnaire was done in Saudi Arabia from October to November 2024 and included adults from both genders and various age groups. The questionnaire contained 10 common myths about MI, and a myth score of 10 points was established as 1 point given for each myth the participants agreed with. Results: The total number of participants was 951. About 74% were familiar with the term “heart attack,” and 70% acquired knowledge from the internet. The average myth score was 2.13±1.77 out of 10 total points. Approximately 25% of our study participants agreed with only one of the provided false statements, while less than 1% agreed with all ten. Conclusions: Overall, the study showed that most participants had good recognition of myths about myocardial infarction. There were links between myths belief and demographic factors like age and gender, in addition to health conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. Men and people with histories of strokes had the lowest levels of awareness compared to others. Correcting misconceptions is crucial to improve outcomes for patients at risk of MI.

Public perceptions of HIV/AIDS awareness in the Gulf Council Cooperation countries: a qualitative study

BackgroundAwareness of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is limited in Muslim countries, even among high-risk populations. Several factors contribute to the misunderstandings and stigma surrounding HIV, including socio-cultural and religious aspects. This study explored people's experiences and perceptions of HIV awareness campaigns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.MethodsWe conducted a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with participants from the GCC region. The data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis methods.ResultsTwenty-seven participants took part in this study. The data revealed five main themes: The Necessity of HIV/AIDS Awareness, The Contrast Between Traditional and Modern Awareness, Exploring the Balance: Moral vs. Health Messages, HIV/AIDS Awareness in GCC countries, and Key Providers of HIV/AIDS Awareness. All participants emphasised the need to raise awareness about HIV in the GCC, believing that recent societal changes and increased openness justify the need for sexual health education. They stressed the importance of delivering clear and assertive health education to raise awareness while minimising the reliance on fear-based messaging. However, some participants expressed concerns about promoting condom use and HIV treatment, fearing it might encourage extramarital sex. Additionally, the lack of a religious component in the awareness messages raised concerns among some participants, as they believed adhering to religious practices was the best protection against HIV.ConclusionsMuslims in the GCC recognise the importance of spreading awareness about HIV. However, they stress the need to balance religious sensitivity with the delivery of open and transparent health messages. Engaging the target community, including high-risk individuals, in planning health campaigns is crucial for improving the acceptance, reach, inclusivity, and understanding of health awareness programs.

People's perception of toxic substances (based on data on arsenic poisoning in the Urals in the 19th — early 20th century)

The article examines the criminal practices of people handling toxic substances based on data on arsenic poisoning from investigation materials and publications on forensic medicine of the 19th — early 20th century. Residents of the Urals treated arsenic as a poison/potion (“zel'e”). This ambivalent perception did not prevent people from having a significant amount of objective knowledge in toxicology. Persons with medical education passed on this knowledge, skills and abilities to the people. The contingent of such persons during the 19th century increased in the Urals: doctors, physicians (“lekar's”), pharmacists, paramedics, and most often apprentice physicians (“lekarskie ucheniki”) appeared in court cases. The most common route of arsenic entering the body was oral (through the mouth). Women added poison to food and drink and poisoned their husbands. Knowledge about the way poison enters a woman’s body through the genitals was classified as “secret”. This method was used by men against women. It was identified by forensic experts extremely rarely and considered as doubtful. The criminals also varied the dose of arsenic (toxic — fatal), the state of aggregation of the poison (solid — liquid), and the degree of dissolution of this hardly soluble substance. These parameters changed the speed and intensity of poisoning (acute — chronic). Their different combinations changed the symptoms of poisoning: signs of damage to either the gastrointestinal tract or the nervous system were observed. The variety of symptoms of poisoning made it difficult to establish an accurate diagnosis, allowed disguising the crime as different diseases, prevented the victim from receiving proper medical care, and helped the criminal evade responsibility for the poisoning.

Long COVID Discourse in Canada, the United States, and Europe: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data.

Social media serves as a vast repository of data, offering insights into public perceptions and emotions surrounding significant societal issues. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, long COVID (formally known as post-COVID-19 condition) has emerged as a chronic health condition, profoundly impacting numerous lives and livelihoods. Given the dynamic nature of long COVID and our evolving understanding of it, effectively capturing people's sentiments and perceptions through social media becomes increasingly crucial. By harnessing the wealth of data available on social platforms, we can better track the evolving narrative surrounding long COVID and the collective efforts to address this pressing issue. This study aimed to investigate people's perceptions and sentiments around long COVID in Canada, the United States, and Europe, by analyzing English-language tweets from these regions using advanced topic modeling and sentiment analysis techniques. Understanding regional differences in public discourse can inform tailored public health strategies. We analyzed long COVID-related tweets from 2021. Contextualized topic modeling was used to capture word meanings in context, providing coherent and semantically meaningful topics. Sentiment analysis was conducted in a zero-shot manner using Llama 2, a large language model, to classify tweets into positive, negative, or neutral sentiments. The results were interpreted in collaboration with public health experts, comparing the timelines of topics discussed across the 3 regions. This dual approach enabled a comprehensive understanding of the public discourse surrounding long COVID. We used metrics such as normalized pointwise mutual information for coherence and topic diversity for diversity to ensure robust topic modeling results. Topic modeling identified five main topics: (1) long COVID in people including children in the context of vaccination, (2) duration and suffering associated with long COVID, (3) persistent symptoms of long COVID, (4) the need for research on long COVID treatment, and (5) measuring long COVID symptoms. Significant concern was noted across all regions about the duration and suffering associated with long COVID, along with consistent discussions on persistent symptoms and calls for more research and better treatments. In particular, the topic of persistent symptoms was highly prevalent, reflecting ongoing challenges faced by individuals with long COVID. Sentiment analysis showed a mix of positive and negative sentiments, fluctuating with significant events and news related to long COVID. Our study combines natural language processing techniques, including contextualized topic modeling and sentiment analysis, along with domain expert input, to provide detailed insights into public health monitoring and intervention. These findings highlight the importance of tracking public discourse on long COVID to inform public health strategies, address misinformation, and provide support to affected individuals. The use of social media analysis in understanding public health issues is underscored, emphasizing the role of emerging technologies in enhancing public health responses.

Dispelling MBTI Superstition: A Study on the Dialectical Use of MBTI from the Perspective of Social Use

This paper starts from a rational understanding and use of MBTI and explores the advantages of MBTI. However, compared with the previous popular horoscope, MBTI has stronger academic theoretical support and provides young people with a "more scientific" choice, such as "which MBTI is more suitable for traveling" and "the best partner for INFP". MBTI has already become a new trend in people's minds, and many different versions have emerged in the process of spreading. Although MBTI can help people understand themselves more accurately, due to the characteristics of the Internet and the limitations of the test itself, it may bring strong negative effects to people. People's understanding and perception of MBTI may only be limited to a few letter combinations of personality types, leading to the appearance of fixed labels, reliability, validity, etc. problems. This study will analyze from the perspectives of education, enterprises, and individuals, and give relevant suggestions.

Does the Choice of Cooking Fuel Impact Happiness and Life Satisfaction?

The subjective experiences and perceptions of people when switching to cleaner cooking fuels are typically ignored in favor of objective indicators like respiratory health or time spent gathering firewood. Given that a sizable section of the populace still cooks using traditional biomass fuels while the country moves toward cleaner fuels like LPG and electricity, this research gap is particularly important in Indonesia. This study examines the association between the use of cleaner cooking fuels and two dimensions of subjective well-being: happiness and life satisfaction, using data from the most recent wave of the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS). Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) are used in this analysis to mitigate selection bias and precisely evaluate treatment effects. The empirical results reveal that the use of clean cooking fuel positively impacts an individual's subjective well-being, enhancing both happiness and life satisfaction. Individuals in rural areas get a more pronounced effect. The findings will offer important perspectives for decision-makers and interested parties focused on enhancing access to clean cooking energy and elevating subjective well-being in Indonesia, particularly in rural regions.

Rehumanizing Science Education: Exploring Outdoor Learning as an Avenue Toward Holistic Wellbeing

ABSTRACT Mainstream education in the United States has prioritized Eurocentric ways of knowing and being, favoring dominant cultures while rejecting relevant learning and creativity. The emphasis on standardization and competition have hindered students and teachers from honoring their full humanity (i.e. humanization), including their social, historical, and creative selves. Science education, as a microcosm of the larger United States education system, elevates homogeny rather than alternative ways of knowing and being, significantly impacting historically marginalized populations. To prioritize authentic connections over knowledge production while simultaneously disrupting Eurocentricity, this paper posits outdoor learning as an avenue toward rehumanizing the science education field by honoring students and teachers as whole people. Attending to the four dimensions of holistic well-being—cognitive, affective, physical, interpersonal—we suggest that outdoor learning can intentionally broaden perceptions of people and land, acknowledging the inherent dignity within all life. This manuscript synthesizes research from various scholars in science education, outdoor learning, and social justice. We conclude with implications for educators, education participants, and scholars interested in exploring outdoor learning and examining how their science practices either perpetuate dehumanization or foster processes of rehumanization for students and teachers of color.

Why do people live in disaster-prone char regions? Perspectives from Assam, India

People residing in the char regions of Assam are among the most vulnerable in the state, and particularly susceptible to multiple disasters such as floods, storms, and land erosion. Despite the existing vulnerabilities and widespread poverty, people continue to live in these areas. Our research aims to investigate why people continue to reside in these areas in such conditions and explore the feasibility of relocation as a possible solution to catastrophe risk mitigation, considering people's perceptions of living in these locations. This study uses a mixed method’s approach to achieve its objectives, based on primary data, collected through a household survey and focus group discussions. A total of 394 char residents from four districts of Assam participated in data collection. The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) has been applied to understand residents' living preferences. Additionally, we used regression models to determine the factors influencing char residents' preference for living in these vulnerable areas. Our findings reveal that while most people prefer to live in the char areas, the risks of multiple disasters are driving some to consider leaving, exacerbated by infrastructure bottlenecks. However, char dwellers do not view relocation as a desirable solution. Alternatively, improving infrastructure and reducing disaster risks could lead to higher-levels of development and satisfaction for char residents.

The Impact of Influencers on Consumer’s Content Consumption of Online Streaming Platforms in Delhi

This study aims to provide fruitful insights regarding the impact of influencers on digital content consumption on online streaming platforms among consumers of Delhi by considering some demographic aspects. We did a systematic literature review to find out the impact of influencers on digital content consumption in Delhi. It also consists of the various genres and streaming platforms that are famous nowadays in Delhi. The Systematic literature review technique is used in a way that will find the appropriate variables and entertain the exact research gap found during the process. This study includes 250 individuals from different characteristics with the help of convenient sampling techniques. It also indicates the perception of people residing in Delhi regarding content consumption across different online streaming Platforms. The outcome of this study suggests the role of influencers affecting various demographics and consumer engagements while consuming digital content.

Community-dwelling older people's experiences of advance care planning with health care professionals: a qualitative systematic review.

The objective of this review is to examine community-dwelling older people's experiences of advance care planning with health care professionals. The importance of health care professionals initiating advance care planning for patients has been reported; however, because of the shift from institutionalized to community care, community-dwelling older people have fewer opportunities to discuss these plans with health care professionals compared with those living in other settings. The timely initiation of advance care planning and sustainable discussions among older people, their families, and community health care professionals is necessary and may improve palliative and end-of-life care. Studies with participants aged 60 years and older who have experience with advance care planning and live in their own homes in the community were included. We considered qualitative studies and the qualitative component of mixed methods studies published between January 1999 and April 2023 in English or Japanese. MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, JSTORE, Scopus, Japan Medical Abstract Society, and CiNii were searched for published papers, and Google Scholar, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global, and MedNar were searched for unpublished papers and gray literature. Study selection, critical appraisal, data extraction, and data synthesis were conducted by 2 independent reviewers using the JBI approach and JBI standardized tools. Findings were pooled using a meta-aggregation approach. The synthesized findings were graded using the ConQual approach for establishing confidence in the output of qualitative research syntheses and presented in a Summary of Findings. Five studies published between 2017 and 2022 were included in the review. Each study's total score was between 6 and 8 out of 10 on the JBI critical appraisal checklist for qualitative research. We extracted 28 findings and aggregated them into 7 categories, generating 3 synthesized findings: i) A trusting relationship with health professionals is essential for older people's decision-making. Health professionals' attitudes, knowledge, and skills play a role in this, influencing the perceived quality of care; ii) Shared decision-making and patient-centered communication are essential. Older people feel ambiguity toward end-of-life decision and advance care planning and they want their wishes to be heard in any situation to maintain their autonomy and quality of life; iii) Older people need the appropriate forms and accessible and coordinated care to begin advance care planning. Qualitative studies on community-dwelling older people's experiences of advance care planning with health care professionals are scarce. The experiences have illustrated that trusting relationships influence people's perception of the quality of care they receive; there is uncertainty about their future; and they have varying feelings or attitudes toward their impending death, including denial and avoidance. This review highlighted the need for appropriate forms, and accessible and coordinated care to begin advance care planning; thus, an approach that meets the individual's health and psychosocial status should be selected carefully. Further research is recommended to include older populations from broader geographical and cultural backgrounds and to assess and evaluate the different advance care planning approaches and their implementation processes among groups of community-dwelling older people with different health and psychosocial statuses. PROSPERO CRD42020122803.

Spinning stories: Wind turbines and local narrative landscapes in Germany

The successful transition toward renewable energies requires public support in areas where their expansion may cause adverse effects. In this context, narratives are crucial as they shape people's perceptions. This article examines the relationship between onshore wind power and related narratives in regions across Germany.We run a series of spatial regression models on regional newspaper data, and our findings suggest that wind-related topics are more prominent and more neutrally (less angrily) framed in regions with more wind turbines. Public attitudes supporting wind energy expansion correlate with the prominence of related topics in regions' narrative landscapes. In contrast, support for anti-wind protests does not seem to correlate with the prominence of wind-energy-related topics in regions with higher wind turbine densities.

Attitudes and perceptions of people towards Artificial Intelligence in human dominated job roles: A bibliometric study

Artificial Intelligence has generated much scholarly and practical attention from researchers in integrating it into job roles that humans traditionally handled. This has inspired an explosion in research activity dedicated to the topic. This study uses a systematic bibliometric method to investigate research progress on individuals' perceptions of AI in jobs. Using a large dataset from the "Web of Science," this research investigates changing patterns, institutional affiliations, geographic distributions, and keyword connections. We retrieved 2228 manuscripts published between 2021 and 2023 from the Web of Science. The researchers used the power of specialized software, Bibliometrix, and VOSviewer, to navigate the intricate web of AI's integration into human-dominated professions. The findings indicate the importance of AI's impact on human job roles. The increased amount of research dedicated to the topic highlights its rising significance within society. This research significantly contributes to the ongoing discourse regarding AI adoption by offering a solid foundation for future enquiries and policy development, particularly as technology and society evolve.

Cherry‐Picking Tolerance About Untruthful News

ABSTRACTPeople are increasingly worried about untruthfulness in news reporting. We distinguish between two types of untruthfulness: apparent untruthfulness (containing false information) and consequential untruthfulness (giving readers a wrong impression of the truth). Consequential untruthfulness can be caused by both the presence of false information and cherry‐picking (reporting only parts of the truth). Despite this, we find that people's perception of untruthfulness depends largely on apparent untruthfulness. Consequently, they treat news that cherry‐picks information less negatively (e.g., less likely to criticize it and more likely to share it with others) than they treat news that contains false information, when the former is more consequentially untruthful than the latter. We dub this phenomenon as cherry‐picking tolerance. We also find that prompting people to think about the consequence of the news report (i.e., the impressions people form after they read the news reports) will mitigate the cherry‐picking tolerance. This research draws attention to the widespread practice of cherry‐picking in news reporting and calls for a new look at what constitutes fake news.

Views and experiences of young people on using mHealth platforms for sexual and reproductive health services in rural low-and middle-income countries: A qualitative systematic review.

In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), reproductive health programs use mobile health (mHealth) platforms to deliver a broad range of SRH information and services to young people in rural areas. However, young people's experiences of using mobile phone platforms for SRH services in the rural contexts of LMICs remains unexplored. This review qualitatively explored the experiences and perceptions of young people's use of mobile phone platforms for SRH information and services. This qualitative evidence synthesis was conducted through a systematic search of online databases: Medline, Embase, CINAHL, PsycInfo and Scopus. We included peer reviewed articles that were conducted between 2000 to 2023 and used qualitative methods. The methodological quality of papers was assessed by two authors using Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) and Confidence in Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research (CERQual) approach with the identified papers synthesized using a narrative thematic analysis approach. The 26 studies included in the review were conducted in a wide range of LMIC rural settings. The studies used seven different types of mHealth platforms in providing access to SRH information and services on contraception, family planning, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) education. Participant preferences for use of SRH service platforms centred on convenience, privacy and confidentiality, as well as ease and affordability. High confidence was found in the studies preferencing text messaging, voice messaging, and interactive voice response services while moderate confidence was found in studies focused on phone calls. The overall constraint for platforms services included poor and limited network and electricity connectivity (high confidence in the study findings), limited access to mobile phones and mobile credit due to cost, influence from socio-cultural norms and beliefs and community members (moderate confidence in the study findings), language and literacy skills constraints (high confidence in the study findings). The findings provide valuable information on the preferences of mHealth platforms for accessing SRH services among young people in rural settings in LMICs and the quality of available evidence on the topic. As such, the findings have important implications for health policy makers and implementers and mHealth technology platform developers on improving services for sustainable adoption and integration in LMIC rural health system.

The effect of a recreational program on improving the elements of balance and sensory-motor perception for people with special needs in integration schools

The effect of a recreational program on improving the elements of balance and sensory-motor perception for people with special needs in integration schools

Perceptions of rural Australian adults with chronic kidney disease stages 3 and 4 about the role of dietary intervention in their health and access to dietetic care.

Dietary modification is an important component of chronic kidney disease (CKD) management. The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of people with earlier-stage CKD living in rural Australia about the role of dietary intervention in their health and access to dietetic care. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 people with stage 3-4 CKD living in a rural Australian health district. Interview questions were guided by the principles of the appreciative inquiry study methodology. The thematic analysis involved inductive coding of data, discussions of emerging themes between co-researchers as coding proceeded and thematic memoing to finalise the transformation of data into distinct themes. Three predominant themes were evident from the data. First, people with CKD expressed that 'Dietary change empowers' them in self-management. Second, 'Dietetics is valued' in achieving dietary change. Third, it was clear that nephrologists had a key role in determining service access through 'Awareness and advocacy' of renal dietetic services. People with CKD living in rural Australia desire early, specialised renal dietetic care. The unexpectedly high acceptability of less resource-intensive technology for dietetic intervention suggests that there is an opportunity for service reorientation. Access to dietetic care could be enhanced by building on the key role of nephrologists in dietetic referral, service awareness and perception of value.

The Power of Human Narrative: Inspiring Action on Climate Change

News reporting on climate catastrophes can be sensational and shocking, and thereby rightly evoke the commensurate sense of enormity and immense challenge inherent in climate change. The global governance solutions, however, present as insufficient to the scale of the problem and hampered by geopolitical, economic, energy resource needs and other complexities. Whether transmitted through the traditional print press, television or modern media, such headlines influence perceptions on climate change either directly, among those choosing to follow climate issues, or else passively.This perspective article acknowledges the potentially powerful role of ordinary people everywhere in driving implementation through personal, household, consumer or producer choices as models of behaviour or through the pressure this brings to bear on leaders and society at large. It looks at how this potential may be affected by the fear engendered by global headlines. Combining this with the inherent political, social, economic and other complexities of climate change, looming deadlines determined by global governance processes, and perceived absence of adequate solutions in those processes, despair can result, which disempowers, undermines agency and deters self-efficacy. Such dissemination of knowledge on the devastating social and environmental consequences of climate change, in apparent absence of adequate solutions, may therefore hinder rather than motivate the efforts and perceptions of ordinary people at grassroots level, individually and collectively, and thus stymy a significant potential driver of mitigation and adaptation implementation.The article suggests that invoking hope, empathy and shared experience in communication on climate change, rather than fear alone, can be potentially far more motivating. It concludes that disseminating stories of human triumph over climate adversities, of which there are many global examples, has the potential to educate, inspire and contribute to driving transformational change at scale, by harnessing the cumulative actions and positive influence of ordinary people, householders, consumers and business owners everywhere. It remains important, at the same time, to also convey the seriousness and realistic concerns for our climate future.This article utilises international news and other publications to illustrate the news coverage of catastrophic climate events and international climate governance processes which address the challenges. It draws upon literature including international agency and academic journal publications to look at relevant aspects of climate communication and examples of positive climate narratives. This perspective article is written from the perspective and observations of a former senior United Nations official with over 25 years’ experience on multilateral governance in sustainable development.

Representation of Family Dysfunction in the Film "Noktah Merah Perkawinan" (Semiotic Analysis of Roland Barthes)

A film is a collection of many images combined into a single whole, consisting of audio and visual components. Movies also often serve as a mirror of social reality. One of the Indonesian films that reflects social reality is the film "Noktah Merah Perkawinan" which tells the story of conflicts and dynamics in domestic life, as well as depicting various social and cultural issues that are relevant to Indonesian society. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze how family dysfunction is represented in the movie "Noktah Merah Perkakahan" and how this can affect people's perception of family problems. Using a descriptive qualitative research method with Roland Barthes' semiotic analysis by identifying several scenes that describe the characteristics of being in a dysfunctional family proposed by a psychotherapist named Dr. Rashmi Prakash in Fistory Parenting, including lack of communication, lack of empathy, mental problems, excessive behavior control, lack of emotional support and violence. The findings emphasize the depiction of gender inequality as a major contributing factor to dysfunction, revealing that children are deeply impacted by such dynamics. This research enriches the understanding of media's role in portraying family dysfunction and aims to offer insights into addressing such issues effectively in real family settings.

How individuals apply and perceive sunscreen: Empirical evidence from Germany.

This study explores how individuals in Germany use and perceive sunscreen, aiming to identify the factors that influence their sunscreen choices. The research focuses on key elements such as convenience, environmental awareness, openness to new technologies, and preferences for different sunscreen products. The findings reveal that the majority of participants prioritize convenience when selecting sunscreen, often choosing products that are easy to apply and carry. Detailed information about the sunscreen's ingredients or health benefits tends to be less important in their decision-making process. Notably, many participants did not consider important factors such as the environmental impact of sunscreen or its effectiveness after reapplication, suggesting a gap in awareness regarding these issues. Additionally, the study investigates the relationship between demographic factors, including age and gender, and sunscreen usage patterns. It was found that these demographic variables do play a role in shaping individuals' attitudes and behaviors regarding sunscreen. For instance, younger participants showed more openness to new technologies and innovative products, while older individuals tended to rely on traditional options. Overall, this research provides valuable insights into how people perceive and use sunscreen in Germany, highlighting the need for further studies to delve deeper into these factors. Understanding these perceptions is crucial for developing effective public health strategies and enhancing product design to better meet the needs and preferences of consumers.

Measuring GIS-based pedestrian accessibility to bus stops: a sustainable approach to ease urban traffic problems at Hyderabad, Pakistan

Public transport stops played a pivotal role in accessing essential locations. It is always appealing for commuters if the transport stops are accessible within walking distance. However, people are facing difficulties in accessing transport stops in Hyderabad; the 8th largest settlement in Pakistan and ranked 2nd in the Sindh Province. The modern approach of network analysis in ArcGIS-10.8 was executed to evaluate the accessibility of current public routes. For the very first time, it was revealed that 53.5% (5 min) of the stops were very accessible. The rest of the 29.3% (10 min), 11.03% (15 min), and 6.17% (20 min or longer) were rated as moderately accessible, poorly accessible, and inaccessible, respectively. Commuters took 5 to 10 min to reach a public transit stop in the inner-city areas and central business district that were distanced between 500 and 800 m. Getting to a stop 1600 m away, however, required more than a 20-min walk. The questionnaire survey with a sample size of 400 was conducted to judge people’s attitudes toward the use of public transport services. The poll clarified travel accessibility issues that plagued Hyderabad's public transport system. The novel tactic of GIS-based network analysis with people's perception was implemented to eradicate pedestrians' accessibility issues while accessing bus stops at Hyderabad, which is rarely employed in developing countries. The results may assist transport planners in reconfiguring the route network system in Hyderabad and the rest of the congested urban centers of the globe. The study findings may also contribute to SDG-11, i.e., sustainable development of cities and communities.