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Revista Ciencias de la Salud
versión impresa ISSN 1692-7273
Resumen
MARTINEZ, Bárbara. Nurses and Paramedic Staff as Drivers of Therapy Adherence: An Ethnographic Research in Catamarca, Argentina. Rev. Cienc. Salud [online]. 2018, vol.16, n.1, pp.144-154. ISSN 1692-7273. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/revsalud/a.6496.
Objectives:
The main objective of this article is to analyze the role of the local nurses and paramedics in the Valle del Cajon region, Catamarca, Argentina, focusing on their intervention in the patients' theraphy adherence.
Content:
Arising from the use of a qualitative methodology with an ethnographic approach, the results stated are obtained from open interviews in multiple sessions, participant observation, film recording and field logbooks. The research shows that the high value that local people bestow on nurses and paramedics, as well as other health workers, their successful intervention in therapeutic itineraries, their knowledge about the ways to conceive the process of health and native diseases, their attachment to the local social organization, their intervention as cultural mediators between local people and doctors, their expertise in handling the local pharmacopoeia and their active participation in issues beyond the health system, among others, constitute instances that sustain therapy adherence.
Conclusions:
The research results show that nurses and paramedics are key actors in APS and their everyday practice in Valle del Cajón, which constitutes a decisive support as to the monitoring of therapeutic treatments.
Palabras clave : Nurse-patient relations; physician-patient relations; qualitative research.