ArticleBMJ open2024
Healthcare-seeking behaviours of patients with acute respiratory infection: a cross-sectional survey in a rural area of southwest China.
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- A 14-year influenza reinfection surveillance in Chongqing, China: A retrospective analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Healthcare-seeking behaviors of individuals with diarrhea in Southwest China: a cross-sectional survey.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Healthcare-Seeking behavior for acute respiratory infections in a community population in Southwest China during the 2021-2023 influenza seasons.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Dilemmas of care: Healthcare seeking behaviours and antibiotic use among women in rural communities in Nam Dinh Province, Vietnam.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectivesThis study aimed to assess the healthcare-seeking behaviour and related factors of people with acute respiratory symptoms in the rural areas of central and western China to estimate the disease burden of influenza more accurately.
designCross-sectional survey. SETTINGS: Fifty-two communities/villages in the Wanzhou District, Chongqing, China, a rural area in southwest China, from May 2022 to July 2022.
participantsThe participants were those who had been living in Wanzhou District continuously for more than 6 months and consented to participate. OUTCOME MEASURES: A semistructured questionnaire was used to determine the healthcare-seeking behaviour of participants, and the dichotomous response of 'yes' or 'no' was used to assess whether participants had acute respiratory symptoms and their healthcare-seeking behaviour.
resultsOnly 50.92% (360 of 707) of the patients with acute respiratory infection visited medical and health institutions for treatment, whereas 49.08% (347 of 707) avoided treatment or opted for self-medication. The primary reason for not seeing a doctor was that patients felt their condition was not serious and visiting a medical facility for treatment was unnecessary. Short distance (87.54%) and reasonable charges (49.48%) were ranked as the most important reasons for choosing treatment at primary medical and health facilities (80.27%). The primary reasons for which patients visited secondary and tertiary hospitals (7.78% and 8.61%, respectively) were that doctors in such facilities were better at diagnosis (57.14%) and at treatment (87.10%).
conclusionThe findings provided in this study indicated that regular healthcare-seeking behaviour investigations should be conducted. The disease burden of influenza can be calculated more accurately when healthcare-seeking behaviour investigations are combined with surveillance in the hospitals.
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