title: An assessment of primary care attributes from the perspective of female healthcare users.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  this study sought to assess the quality of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) and investigated the association between primary care attributes (PCAs) and the sociodemographic characteristics of users.
  
  
  METHODS
  a total of 215 female FHS users were interviewed for this descriptive and cross-sectional study. The Primary Care Assessment Tool (PCATool), Adult Edition was used, and the results were analyzed using Fisher's exact tests, Pearson's chi-square tests and logistic regressions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the lowest average score corresponded to the dimension "accessibility" (1.80), and the highest score corresponded to "access" (8.76). The results corresponding to the attributes "longitudinality", "coordination", "comprehensiveness", and "orientation" were not significant. No association was found between the participants' sociodemographic characteristics and the essential, derivative, and general attributes (p>0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  several attributes must be improved across all the investigated services from the perspective of female FHS users.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Espíríto Santo, Vitória, ES, BR.
authors.forename: Eliane de Fátima Almeida
authors.initials: Ede F
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, BR.
authors.forename: Ana Inês
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Espíríto Santo, Vitória, ES, BR.
authors.forename: Cândida Caniçali
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Primo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Espíríto Santo, Vitória, ES, BR.
authors.forename: Francielie Marabotti Costa
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Leite
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Espíríto Santo, Vitória, ES, BR.
authors.forename: Rita de Cassia Duarte
authors.initials: Rde C
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Espíríto Santo, Vitória, ES, BR.
authors.forename: Ethel Leonor Nóia
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Maciel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D055815:Young Adult