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Resumo Objetivo Analisar os tempos relacionados ao acesso de homens e mulheres com infarto do miocárdio a hospitais referência em cardiologia e a correlação entre eles. Métodos Pesquisa transversal, com 100 pessoas com infarto entrevistadas em hospitais referência em cardiologia. Dados analisados por estatística descritiva e inferencial, adotando-se significância estatística. Resultados Os tempos foram elevados (decisão para atendimento, chegada ao primeiro serviço de saúde, permanência na rede de atenção e admissão em hospitais referência em cardiologia), exceto o de transporte, sobretudo para mulheres. Houve maior contribuição do tempo de decisão na composição do tempo de chegada ao primeiro serviço de saúde e do tempo de permanência na rede na composição do tempo de chegada aos hospitais referência em cardiologia. Conclusão A longa espera por atenção especializada reflete a falta de estrutura dos serviços de saúde, e o tempo de decisão elevado reflete a falta do não reconhecimento do infarto pelos participantes. Abstract Objective To analyze the access times of men and women who are having a myocardial infarction to referral hospitals in cardiology and the correlation between them. Methods Cross-sectional research, involving 100 victims of a myocardial infarction who were interviewed at referral hospitals in cardiology. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used with statistical significance. Results The access times were long (decision to seek care, arrival to first health service, time in care network and admission to referral hospitals in cardiology), except for the transportation time, mainly for women. The decision time contributed more to the time it took to arrive at the first health service and the time in the care network contributed more to the time to arrive at the referral hospitals in cardiology. Conclusion The long time waiting for specialized care reflects the lack of structure of the health services and the long decision time reflects the participants’ lack of recognition of the myocardial infarction.

p. 1363-1371 Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2014-04-29T13:51:21Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Antonio de Souza Teles Santos.pdf: 540191 bytes, checksum: b04af3eba9d309200153d26285ed61d0 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-04-29T13:51:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Carlos Antonio de Souza Teles Santos.pdf: 540191 bytes, checksum: b04af3eba9d309200153d26285ed61d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 Analyze cognitive and emotional variables between genders in terms of the decision time (DT) to seek care when experiencing symptoms of myocardial infarction. One hundred adults were interviewed at two hospitals in Salvador-BA. The analysis used percentage means, the chi-square test, and a robust linear regression model. Most participants were male, with a mean age of 58.78 years and a low socioeconomic status. The geometrical mean of the sample was 1.1h (0.9h for men, and 1.4h for women). A shorter decision time was found for those who considered their symptoms to be severe, and a longer decision time for those who expected symptoms to improve and took something to feel better, with statistically significant associations. An interaction was observed between gender and the following variables: waiting for symptoms to improve (p=0.014), concealing symptoms (p=0.016) and asking for help (p=0.050), thus an association was observed between the variables of interest and DT. The decision times were long and were affected by cognitive, emotional and gender variables. Nursing care may promote early assistance.