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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Cuba continues implementing nationwide the Diabetic Foot Ulcer Patient Care Program with the use of Heberprot-P^®.
Objective: To show the opinions and behaviours of patients and of Heberprot-P^® administration-related professionals.
Methods: The theoretical-methodological substantiation as well as the results of the social approach-designed evaluation conducted in the primary health care office of ¨Julio Antonio Mella¨ polyclinics in the city of Camaguey were presented. The research took into account surveys of 19 patients to identify the needs they felt in order to finish their treatment, to know their attitudes towards the treatment to be received and to determine how much they knew about the risk factors of their pathology and their disease as a whole. Additionally, in-depth interviews were applied to the medical and nursing staff was also interviewed, including in- situ observation guide.
Results: The research work allowed recording the positive opinions of the 19 surveyed patients about the proper care they received from the physician and the nurse who administered Heberprot-P^® as well as the effectiveness of the product in the improvement of the disease. Two professionals and a technician related to the service expressed their positive criteria about this type of medical care.
Conclusions: It is important to highlight the work carried out in selecting patients at the primary health care to assure wider scope of the program, the significance of the professional support given to every patient and the excellent health professional-patient and physician-nurse relationships in order to obtain satisfactory Heberprot-P^® treatment results.