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Title: | General practitioners' and primary care nurses' care for people with disabilities: quality of communication and awareness of supportive services | Authors: | STORMS, Hannelore MARQUET, Kristel CLAES, Neree |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Source: | Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 2017(10), p. 367-376 | Abstract: | Background: General practitioners (GPs) and primary-care nurses (PCNs) often feel inexperienced or inadequately educated to address unmet needs of people with disabilities (PDs). In this research, GPs' and PCNs' communication with PDs and health care professionals, as well as their awareness of supportive measures relevant to PDs (sensory disabilities excluded), was examined. Materials and methods: An electronic questionnaire was sent out to 545 GPs and 1,547 PCNs employed in Limburg (Belgium). GPs and PCNs self-reported about both communication with parties involved in care for PDs (scale very good, good, bad, very bad) and their level of awareness of supportive measures relevant for PDs (scale unaware, inadequately aware, adequately aware). Results: Of the questionnaire recipients, 6.6% (36 of 545) of GPs and 37.6% (588 of 1,547) of PCNs participated: 68.8% of 32 GPs and 45.8% of 443 PCNs categorized themselves as communicating well with PDs, and attributed miscommunication to limited intellectual capacities of PDs. GPs and PCNs reported communicating well with other health care professionals. Inadequate awareness was reported for tools to communicate (88.3% of GPs, 89% of PCNs) and benefits for PDs (44.1% of GPs, 66.9% of PCNs). Conclusion: GPs' and PCNs' lacking awareness of communication aids is problematic. Involvement in a multidisciplinary, expert network might bypass inadequate awareness of practical and social support measures. | Keywords: | nursing care; disability; primary care; family medicine; networks; integrated care; unmet needs; quality; accessibility | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/24878 | ISSN: | 1178-2390 | e-ISSN: | 1178-2390 | DOI: | 10.2147/JMDH.S140962 | ISI #: | 000411206600001 | Rights: | This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License. By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2021 vabb 2019 |
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