The importance of waiting rooms for health literacy and communication
development of an instrument and analysis of patients’ perspectives
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waiting room, health literacy, health education, health promotion, communicationAbstract
This paper discusses the potential of waiting rooms and circulation areas in ACES – Health Center Cluster Units, which henceforth will only be mentioned as “health units”, as privileged spaces for health promotion and for increasing health literacy. In a firstphase, an instrument of exploratory, qualitative, descriptive analysis was developed and applied in five health units. In the second phase, semi-structured interviews were applied to 45 patients of health units. These interviews collected patient’s opinions, perceptions and attitudes about the waiting room and its facilities and the attitudes towards health information shared in these spaces.
This work offers a holistic perspective based on direct and indirect observation of waiting room spaces in health units. An instrument that intends to work as an internal tool to support the self-management and continuous improvement of the quality of waiting spaces is available in this work.
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