Consumer issues in navigating health care services for type I diabetes Rasmussen, Bodil, Wellard, Sally and Nankervis, Alison 2001, Consumer issues in navigating health care services for type I diabetes, Journal of clinical nursing, vol. 10, pp. 628-634, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2001.00550.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Consumer issues in navigating health care services for type I diabetes Author(s) Rasmussen, Bodil orcid.org/0000-0002-6789-8260 Wellard, Sally Nankervis, Alison Journal name Journal of clinical nursing Volume number 10 Start page 628 End page 634 Publisher Blackwell Science Ltd Place of publication Oxford, Eng. Publication date 2001 ISSN 0962-1067 1365-2702 Keyword(s) diabetes qualitative analysis navigation health services health professionals transition Summary • Despite increasing interest in consumer awareness and participation in health care service delivery, there has been little exploration of consumer views in relation to services for people with type I diabetes. • The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study was to identify strategies people with type I diabetes used to access health services and the barriers they perceived in accessing the services they needed. • Data gathered in semi-structured interviews revealed that consumers experience significant barriers when navigating the health care system. • Three dominant themes were identified. They relate to access to specialist medical skill, to the transition from teenager to young adult and to pre-pregnancy and obstetric care. • Directions for change in service delivery and policy development are discussed. Language eng DOI 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2001.00550.x Field of Research 111704 Community Child Health HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2001, Blackwell Science Ltd Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30001221 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Health School of Nursing and Midwifery Higher Education Research Group Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 04 Jun 2013, 11:04:25 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 20:56:11 EST Fri, 17 Oct 2014, 08:06:22 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 29 times in TR Web of Science Cited 34 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 996 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 07:34:00 EST