Satisfaction with healthcare services among Spanish people with disabilities
Discussion
In summary, people with disabilities generally show a high level of satisfaction with healthcare services, influenced by a positive valuation of their differentiated use given their specific care needs. Subjective aspects of care have a notable influence, linked with the perception of the person's own state of health and emotional status, on these positive valuations; patients' individual perceptions can reduce care needs and the use patients make of healthcare services and tend to increase their level of satisfaction with these services when they do seek them.
However, the results show that women with disabilities manifest lower satisfaction than men because they have different needs and make more use of some services that they do not consider to be completely adapted to their situation. If satisfaction is to be an indicator of the quality of healthcare services, then this is one aspect in which improvements must still be made.