Open AccessImportance of Client Orientation Domains in Non-Clinical Quality of Care: A Household Survey in High and Low Income Districts of Mashhad
Author(s) -
Somayeh Fazaeli,
Mehdi Yousefi,
Seyed Hasan Banikazemi,
Seyed Amir Hossein Hashemi,
Ali Khorsand Vakilzadeh,
Narges Hoseinzadeh Aval
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
global journal of health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1916-9744
pISSN - 1916-9736
DOI - 10.5539/gjhs.v8n7p228
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , ordered logit , quality (philosophy) , sample (material) , logistic regression , productivity , ordinal regression , health care , psychology , medicine , business , statistics , computer science , economics , economic growth , mathematics , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology , chromatography , machine learning
Responsiveness introduced by WHO as a key indicator to assess the performance of health systems and measures by common set of domains that are categorized in to two main categories "Respect for persons" and "client orientation". This study measured importance of client orientation domains in high and low income districts of Mashhad. In this cross-sectional and explanatory study, Sample of 923 households were selected randomly from two high and low income districts of Mashhad. World Health Organization (WHO) questionnaire was used for data collection. Standard frequency analyses and Ordinal logistic regression (OLR) was employed for data analysis. In general, respondents selected quality of basic amenities as the most important domain and access to social support networks was identified as the least important domain. Households in high income area scored higher domains of prompt attentions and choice Compared to low income. There was a significant relationship between variables of ages, having member that need to care and self-assessed health with the ranking of client orientation domains.Study of households' view on ranking of non-clinical aspects of quality of care, especially when faced with limited resources, can help to conduct efforts towards subjects that are more important, and lead to improve the health system performance and productivity.