User access to speech-language patholog y care in a Primary Health Unit in Campinas.

To identify the profile of users of a Basic Health Unit, the aspects of the technical dimension of access to speech-language pathology care, and to highlight significant factors for the time until care is provided. An observational, descriptive-analytical, longitudinal study and survival analysis based on the examination of 242 recorded services from 2012 to 2020. Among the cases, 77.7% were children up to 10 years old, 64.9% were boys, and 69.8% had complaints in the language area and were referred by a pediatrician (47.5%). Days elapsed until reception, referral source, age group, and complaint are significant for the time until service is provided. The results indicate the need to reinforce services for complaints of orofacial motor function alteration, language delay, phonological deviation, school difficulty/reading and writing, and stuttering. The presence of interns and a resident in speech-language pathology contributed to user access, enabling greater identification of demands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]