"Medicines is all that I can sometimes offer them": challenges of providing primary diabetes care to persons with disabilities in Tamil Nadu.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Persons with disabilities have a higher risk for and poorer outcomes of type 2 diabetes. Primary health care providers face several challenges in providing primary diabetes care for them. This study was conducted to explore the challenges faced by primary health care providers in delivering primary diabetes services to persons with disabilities.

Methods

We performed a qualitative research study by conducting in-depth interviews among 13 primary health care providers including medical officers, staff nurses, community health workers and a physiotherapist. We adopted a descriptive qualitative research approach to data collection and analysis.

Results

Primary health care providers often could only prescribe medications to persons with diabetes by proxy due to

SUBMITTER: Thiagesan R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9253259 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature