A qualitative study on rehabilitation services at primary health care: insights from primary health care stakeholders in low-resource contexts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The chasm between rehabilitation needs and available rehabilitation services is widening. In most low-resource contexts, there are inadequate rehabilitation professionals at primary health care (PHC), leaving nonrehabilitation primary care providers' (PCPs) and district rehabilitation professionals and managers to address patients' rehabilitation needs. This study explored rehabilitation and non-rehabilitation PCPs' and managers' perspectives on the situation of rehabilitation service provision in PHC settings and the challenges experienced in providing rehabilitation care.

Methods

In this descriptive, exploratory qualitative study, individual semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with purposefully sampled PCPs in Manicaland, Zimbab

SUBMITTER: Charumbira MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11515710 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature