Care-seeking experiences of unattached patients in the Canadian health care system: Qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand how lack of attachment to a regular primary care provider influences patients' outlooks on primary care, ability to address their health care needs, and confidence in the health care system.

Design

Qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews.

Setting

Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec.

Participants

Patients aged 18 years or older who were unattached or had become attached within 1 year of being interviewed and who resided in the province in which they were interviewed.

Methods

Forty-one semistructured interviews were conducted, during which participants were asked to describe how they had become unattached, their searches to find new primary care providers, their perceptions of and experiences

SUBMITTER: Mathews M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11280697 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature