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| Older adults' bodily changes and physician contact | | Author(s) | Marie R Haug, Diana Morris, Carol Musil |
| Journal title | Health, vol 1, part 1, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp 81-105 |
| Keywords | General practice ; Doctors ; Usage [services] ; Health [elderly] ; Depression ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The question of what motivates older people to seek medical advice was explored among a random sample of 467 persons aged 65 and over living in Ohio, United States (US). The effect of physical and physiological variables on an initial physician visit was analysed for particular bodily changes the subjects had experienced. Unlike the situation in many other utilisation studies, these specific complaints could be identified as leading to physician contact in a causal sequence. Multiple regression revealed limited effects of self-assessed health, body awareness, depression and anxiety on the decision to consult a physician, but significant effect of the perceived seriousness of the complaint. The findings cast doubt on the utility of self-assessed health and psychological distress as predictors of physician use in major archival studies. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980421215 A |
| Classmark | L5: QT2: QLD: CC: ENR: 7T * |
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