Quality of Service to Users of Primary Health Care: A Study of Evaluation

Fábia Barbosa de Andrade^1*, Iris do Ceu Clara Costa², Tainara Lôrena dos Santos Ferreira¹, Dayane Caroliny Pereira Justino¹, Luanni Rayssa de Medeiros Souza¹, Cláudia Janiele Batista Fonsêca¹, Paula Thayse Costa Fernandes¹, Andréia Geíse Gomes de Araújo¹

¹Faculty of Health Sciences of Trairi (FACISA), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Santa Cruz, Brazil.
²Department of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Brazil.

DOI: 10.4236/health.2015.72023                

Abstract

The quality of service to people in Primary Healthcare (PHC) is linked to the provision of quality service by professionals who integrate this service in the community. Accordingly, this study aims to evaluate the service given by health professionals in primary health care, from the user’s perception. This is an evaluative and quantitative study, conducted with people who use the PHC service. 180 adults are interviewed in the city of Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The results show that most respondents are women. The average age is of 36.65, median of 34.00 and standard deviation of 11,554. With regards to the quality of service, it ranges from fair to good. When performing correlation between the quality of service and time spent to reach the service, most people say that they spend between 0 and 15 minutes from their house to the healthcare service unit. About reception, respondents reported being satisfied and that the service has been responsible and quality for health monitoring. Thus, it is noted that the user classifies the quality of the service in primary healthcare as regular, showing weaknesses that need to be corrected to prevent damage in service provision in Primary Healthcare.

Keywords

Primary Healthcare, Adult’s Health, Public Health, Nursing

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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