The Difficulties Meet by Primary Healthcare Professionals Providing Care to Patients from Culturally Diverse Communities. Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals and Basis for Improvement Strategies

We want to know the difficulties meet by healthcare professionals providing care to patients from culturally diverse communities at Primary healthcare centers in Barcelona city. Through the perceptions of professionals we will propose improvement strategies. We design a Qualitative study of social constructivism approach. Centers participate according to their percentage of immigrant population and their cultural profile: Pakistani, Filipino, Chinese, Latin American and Maghreb. A theoretical sampling of professionals is selected. Profile variables are profession, gender, age and professional seniority. Data is obtained through focus groups which are video-recorded and transcribed on a text body. We realize a thematic content analysis. Through the different Emergent categories and their relationships we will elaborate an explanatory framework.