Patients’ perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa
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Authors
Bucyibaruta, Blaise J
Eyles, John
Harris, Bronwyn
Kabera, Gaëtan
Oboirien, Kafayat
Ngyende, Benon
Issue Date
2018-11-07
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Journal Article
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Abstract
Background
The field of acceptability of health services is emerging and growing in coherence. But there are gaps, including relatively little integration of elements of acceptability. This study attempted to analyse collectively three elements of acceptability namely: patient-provider, patient-service organisation and patient-community interactions.
Methods
Mixed methods were used to analyse secondary data collected as part of the Researching Equity in Access to Health Care (REACH) study of access to tuberculosis (TB) treatment, antiretroviral therapy (ART) and maternal health (MH) services in South Africa’s public health sector.
Results
Provider acceptability was consistently high across all the three tracer services at 97.6% (ART), 96.6% (TB) and 96.4% (MH). Service acceptability was high only for TB tracer (70.1%). Community acceptability was high for both TB (83.6%) and MH (96.8%) tracers.
Conclusion
Through mixed methods, this paper provides a nuanced view of acceptability of health services.
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BMC Health Services Research. 2018 Nov 07;18(1):839