Barriers to uptake of services for coronary heart disease: qualitative study
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Objectives: To identify factors within the South Yorkshire coalfields that influence use of health services by people with angina. Design: Qualitative study using semistructured individual and group interviews. Setting: General practice and community settings in Barnsley and Rotherham health authorities. Participants: 14 patients with stable angina and nine primary care staff had individual interviews plus five community groups and one group of general practitioners. Main outcome measures: Barriers to accessing health services. Results: A complex web of factors was identified that prevented, delayed, or facilitated referral to secondary care. Delay, denial, and self management by patients meant that the full extent of symptoms often remained hidden from general practitioners, resulting in a delayed or missed referral. Barriers identified fell into six categories: structural, personal, social and cultural, past experience and expectations, diagnostic confusion, and knowledge and awareness. Conclusions: Many of the factors influencing referral operate before general practitioners become involved. Community development could be one way of tackling inequalities and promoting sustainable change. Structural changes are needed to improve access and increase the acceptability of general practice services. Primary care staff should be educated to detect underreporting of symptoms and promote appropriate referral. What is already known on this topic: An inverse correlation has been shown between deprivation and cardiac revascularisation Fear of hospitals, denial of ill health, and low expectations may prevent people with angina accessing health services What this study adds: Fear, denial, and low expectations were important barriers to accessing health services, reinforcing earlier findings Other factors may be specific to the study population—for example, coping, independence, and attributing symptoms to industrially related lung disease Many of the barriers operate before general practitioners are involved, making it difficult to identify solutions
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- Authors
- Tod, A. M., Read, C., Lacey, A., & Abbott, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Tod, Angela M
- ORCID
- Tod, Angela M
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2001-07-28
- Volume
- 323
- Issue
- 7306
- Pages
- 214.1
- ISSN
- 0007-1447 (ISSN-L)
- 0959-8138
- 1468-5833
- PMC
- PMC35276
- OpenAlex
- W2015018872
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 6.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.bmj.com/company/legal-information/terms-conditions/legal-information/tdm-licencepolicy (tdm)
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (submittedVersion)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Keywords
- coronary artery disease, stable angina, barriers to care, secondary care referral, late referral, symptom underreporting, fear of hospitals, denial of illness, patient expectations, diagnostic confusion, health disparities, coalfield communities, primary care, community development, South Yorkshire
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Angina Pectoris, Anxiety, England, Fear, Female, Health Services Accessibility, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Psychosocial Deprivation, Referral and Consultation, Self Care, Social Class
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