Limits and strategies of health professionals on adherence to treatment of diabetes: integrative review

Abstract

Objective: To know the limits and strategies of health professionals in the process of adherence to treatment of people with diabetes. Method: Integrative review with time frame of 10 years. Follow six simple steps for selecting and analyzing the data, we found 388 articles, only 15 met the inclusion criteria. Results: For the limits of health professionals regarding the process of adherence to diabetes revealed three themes: organizational factors, individual factors and occupational factors, the strategies used by them were grouped into individual proposals, inter and customer relations. Conclusion: The professionals seem to understand the magnitude of the elements limiting their practice and engender efforts to overcome it. It was evident the importance of understanding the issues that relate to the accession process and the lack of studies that focus on these aspects in the professional perspective.