Challenges of Shifting Diabetes Mellitus Care From Secondary- to Primary-Level Care in Urban and Rural Districts: A Qualitative Inquiry Among Health Providers.

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Likke Prawidya PutriLaksono Trisnantoro

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to understand the acceptability of Prolanis, a program that shifts the diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM) patient management from secondary to primary care, among Indonesian primary health care providers. Method: We completed face-to-face semistructured interviews with 14 health professionals from 3 urban and 4 rural government-owned primary health care clinics (Puskesmas) in 4 districts. We performed content analysis using the theoretical framework of acceptability (TFA) to understand which factors could facilitate or reduce acceptability. Results: Our study identifies that lack of health care providers' acceptability to Prolanis was attributable to the negative affective attitude, low perceived effectiveness, poor self-efficacy, and work burden. The use of Prolanis output as one of the pay-for-performance indicators was deemed unsuitable because it could demotivate health providers to capture more undetected T2DM cases. This, compounded by lacking perceived benefit for the health care providers, leading to negative attitudes. Participants believed that the program improved patients' adherence to visiting clinics routinely; however, the absence of a formal evaluation of reductions of key T2DM indicators...Continue Reading

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