User Difficulties for the Problem-Solving Ability of Ophthalmological Care in the Health Care Network

Dificultades enfrentadas por los usuarios para la resolubilidad de la atención oftalmológica en la red de atención de la salud

Dificuldades enfrentadas pelos usuários para resolubilidade do cuidado oftalmológico na rede de atenção à saúde

Meneguin, Silmara - Pollo, Camila Fernandes - Oliveira, Ines Regina Mainini
Detalles Bibliográficos
2021
sistema único de saúde
atenção secundária à saúde
serviços de saúde ocular
enfermagem
sistema único de salud
atención secundaria de salud
servicios de salud ocular
enfermería
unified health system
secondary health care
eye health services
nursing
Portugués
Universidad Católica del Uruguay
LIBERI
https://revistas.ucu.edu.uy/index.php/enfermeriacuidadoshumanizados/article/view/2346
https://hdl.handle.net/10895/3738
Acceso abierto
Resumen:
Sumario:Contextual framework: The problem-solving ability of healthcare is a concept associated with the final resolution of the problems the users bring to the health service. Objectives: Know the motives that hamper the problem-solving ability of ophthalmological care in secondary healthcare from the user’s perspective and to identify suggestions to improve it. Methods: A qualitative-quantitative research was undertaken in a non-probabilistic sample of 208 patients, who were referred for ophthalmological care at a secondary health service in a city in the interior of São Paulo, Brazil. The interviews were recorded with the participants’ consent, transcribed, and analyzed, using the methodological strategy of the Collective Subject Discourse. Results: Countless motives delay the problem-solving ability of care, which are linked to bureaucracy, lack of human and material resources and the non-existence of referral and counter-referral in the organization of the healthcare network. Conclusion: The difficulties the users feel reflect this service’s lack of organization, which not only does not grant priority to care for the diabetic patients but does not commit either to proper forwarding or monitoring.