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  • Title: Barriers to accessing rural paediatric speech pathology services: health care consumers' perspectives.
    Author: O'Callaghan AM, McAllister L, Wilson L.
    Journal: Aust J Rural Health; 2005 Jun; 13(3):162-71. PubMed ID: 15932486.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: An investigation of consumers' perceived barriers to access paediatric speech pathology services. DESIGN: Self-administered, mail-out questionnaire. SETTING: Rural and remote New South Wales (NSW). SUBJECTS: Three hundred and twenty-nine members of the NSW branch of the Isolated Children's and Parents' Association. RESULTS: Consumers living in rural and remote areas experience a number of barriers that affected their ability to access speech pathology services. These barriers include the lack, and limited choice, of speech pathologists in rural areas; long distances to travel to access services, expensive travel costs, lack of public transport; poor awareness of speech pathology services; and delays in treatment due to waiting lists. CONCLUSION: Barriers to access paediatric speech pathology services limit rural and remote consumers' usage of health services, regardless of need, indicating a possible inequity if compared to larger, more accessible urban areas.
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