"What will the doctor give me, the same painkiller?": a qualitative study exploring health-care seeking and symptoms self-management among patients for the treatment of long-term chikungunya disease, in Cura çao

CONCLUSIONS: To promote the benefits of long-term health-care seeking and subsequently reduce the possible harmful use of analgesics, a collaborative physician-patient therapeutic relationship need to be encouraged. To facilitate this, important shifts may be needed in chikungunya sequalae education of both patients and health-care professionals, and policy makers need to revise health systems for the long-term provision of multidisciplinary care to achieve beneficial health outcomes in long-term chikungunya disease.PMID:37957621 | PMC:PMC10641972 | DOI:10.1186/s12913-023-10254-8
Source: Pain Physician - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Source Type: research