ArticlePEC innovation2022
Sociodemographic factors and perceived patient-provider communication associated with healthcare avoidance among women with psychological distress.
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- Assessing Racial and Gender Disparities in Asthma Education, Knowledge, and Healthcare Access Among Adolescents.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2025Article
- Association between patient-provider communication and withholding information due to privacy concerns among women in the United States: an analysis of the 2011 to 2018 Health Information National Trends Survey.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Public health risk communication through the lens of a quarantined community: Insights from a coronavirus hotspot in Germany.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Objective: To establish the extent to which psychological distress influences health avoidance behavior among women, controlling for patient provider communication and sociodemographic characteristics. Methods: Data from the 2019 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 5, Cycle 3) was analyzed to obtain healthcare avoidance behavior among women aged 18 and older ( Results: Approximately 649 women or 1 in 4 women (26.7% weighted prevalence; 95% Confidence Interval [CI] 0.23%-0.29%) avoided healthcare in the past 12 months. Non-Hispanic white (62.8%) and married (55.4%) women represented a higher proportion of the sample. Bivariate analysis revealed that the odds of reporting healthcare avoidance among women with mild, moderate, and severe psychological distress (Odds Ratio [OR]: 2.26, 95% CI: 1.45-3.53, Conclusion: A high proportion of women with psychological distress avoid necessary healthcare. Patient-provider communication quality, increasing age, and being a high school student contribute to healthcare avoidance in women. Innovation: Strategies to improve health service utilization must address healthcare avoidance by developing effective health communication targeted at women with psychological distress.
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