Perceptions of family medicine among long-term patients of a family medicine clinic in Japan: a mixed-methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the perceptions of family medicine among patients attending a family medicine clinic for over 10 years in Japan and explore the unique characteristics of a family medicine which was developed in the local community in northern Japan.

Design

Explanatory, sequential mixed-method design comprising a survey by questionnaires and semistructured interviews.

Setting

The study was conducted at one of the oldest family medicine primary care clinics in Japan. We surveyed and interviewed participants from November 2019 to March 2020.

Participants

144 patients who have attended a family medicine clinic since April 2009 completed the questionnaires. Semistructured interviews with nine participants were conducted.

Results

Among the respondents, 1

SUBMITTER: Sato K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10824025 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature