Factors Predicting Self-Care Behaviors among Low Health Literacy Hypertensive Patients Based on Health Belief Model in Bushehr District, South of Iran

Larki, Azam; Tahmasebi, Rahim; Reisi, Mahnoush

doi:10.1155/2018/9752736

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“…Shiloh, Wade, Roberts, Alford, and Biesecker (2013) found out many findings, the most interesting of which are: there are significant differences in risk perceptions and concern about diseases; there are significant gender differences in risk perceptions and concern about common diseases. Similar results were possible to find in the studies of Duncan, Schaller, andPark (2009), Fukukawa, Oda, Usami, andKarahito (2014), Hill, Boehm, and Prokosch (2016), Larki, Tahmasebi, and Reisi (2018) and Oda (2017). The similar research was done by Welling, Conway, Bebruine, and Jones (2007) with the result, that men and women who perceived themselves to be vulnerable to disease have stronger preferences for apparent health in dynamic faces than individuals who perceive themselves to be relatively less vulnerable to disease.…”

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The Influence of Selected Variables on Lower Secondary School Students’ Concepts About Diseases

Fančovičová

Kubiatko

2019

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Children's concept of biological phenomena differs from scientific thought in many aspects. The revelation of wrong concepts contributes to better education, especially when that information is described in a specific field of science. Not only children, but also adults often use anthropomorphic and theological explanations to express their ideas, which confirm their lack of understanding of biological phenomena. A great deal of research has proved retaining of children's misconceptions in the fields of zoology and botany. How accurate, however, are their ideas about organisms of a microscopic size? The aim of the research was to find out the influence of selected factors (perceived vulnerability, grade, gender and type of group) on concepts about diseases among lower secondary school students. The research sample consisted of 400 students of lower secondary education from Slovakia. Data were collected through Likert type questionnaires. The correlation was found between perceived vulnerability to diseases, age and concepts about diseases. The statistically significant difference in the results between boys and girls was not confirmed. The higher impact should be aimed at their importance for humans and nature for a better understanding of this concept.

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The Influence of Selected Variables on Lower Secondary School Students’ Concepts About Diseases

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Kubiatko

2019

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“…No significant predictors were found in the model of the elders without chronic diseases. A possible explanation is that the self-treatment for acute diseases is common across the population groups with low selfperceived health risks, including the people without chronic diseases [48,49]. In addition, it should be noted that the small sample size (N = 85) in this subgroup may lead to the inadequate power of test, which might result in the false negatives of some variables [50].…”

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“…As for the self-care habit in TCM, on the one hand, people with the habits of self-care may have high perceived susceptibility and are likely to seek professional help instead of the risky self-treatment approaches. Some studies indicated that the self-care practice of some patients with chronic diseases is associated with the high perceived susceptibility of disorders [48,49]. On the other hand, elders with the habits of self-care in TCM have higher affinities to TCM [34], and these elders tend to seek medical help in TCM sectors, in which they may be confronted with less barrier during the process of seeing and communicating with doctors compared to the western medicine sectors [51,52], especially for empty-nest elders without support from younger family caregivers [12].…”

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Prevalence and associated factors of self-treatment behaviour among different elder subgroups in rural China: a cross-sectional study

Zhong

Pan

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Int J Equity Health

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Background: Self-treatment is a common and widespread behaviour, of which the risks are multiplied in old age. However, the determinants of self-treatment among elders in rural China remain unclear. This study aims to explore the prevalence and associated factors of self-treatment among elders in rural China, trying to discover the vulnerable groups as well as the service gaps among the rural elders. Methods: Based on a multi-stage stratified random sampling method, a cross-sectional household survey was conducted among 30 villages in Sinan County, an impoverished county in western China. Data were collected through a household-individual combined questionnaires. The analysis was restricted to elders who reported illness within the last 2 weeks, and the final sample size was 330 (individuals). Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analysis were performed in the whole sample group and four subgroups to obtain the prevalence ratios regarding the associated factors. Results: In the present study, 35.2% of the elders with illness within the last 2 weeks reported self-treatment. The variables associated with self-treatment in the whole sample group were health status (OR 6.75, 95%CI 1.93-23.60), recent alcohol consumption (OR 0.42, 95%CI 0.21-0.83) and the utilisation of family practice services (OR 0.59, 95%CI 0.36-0.96); the same predictors were found in the subgroup of elders with chronic diseases. No significant predictors were found in the subgroup of elders without chronic diseases. Empty-nest elders with higher affinity to traditional Chinese medicine (OR 0.39, 95%CI 0.18-0.86) or drinking alcohol recently (OR 0.28, 95%CI 0.09-0.82) were less likely to self-treat, while the non-empty-nest elders who were no less than 75 years old (OR 3.10, 95%CI 1.33, 7.22) or at better health status (OR 9.20, 95%CI 1.73-48.75) were more likely to self-treat. Conclusion: Self-treatment was prevalent among the elders in rural China. Better health status, no recent alcohol consumption and no utilisation of family practice are associated with self-treatment among rural elders. Older elders in the non-empty nest group were more likely to self-treat, while the empty-nest elders with self-care habits in traditional Chinese medicine were less likely to self-treat. Deeper understanding of the self-treatment behaviour among rural elders may provide insights for identifying the potential service gaps and developing improvement strategies in the health care delivery system for the elderly in China.

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“…Therefore, the association is reasonably stronger between the utilisation of family practice and the less likelihood to self-treat among elders with chronic diseases compared with the result of the model of the whole sample. As for the subgroups of the elders without chronic diseases, a possible explanation for the insignificant model is that the self-treatment for acute diseases is common across the population with low self-perceived health risks [44,45]. Another explanation may relate to the bias from the low rates of the awareness of the presence of the chronic diseases among the rural elders in China, especially in rural areas [46].…”

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“…Another possible explanation is that the people with the habits of self-care may have high perceived susceptibility and are likely to seek professional help instead of the risky self-treatment approaches. Some studies indicated that the self-care practice of some patients with chronic diseases is associated with the high perceived susceptibility of disorders [44,45] . The association between self-treatment and the recent alcohol consumption is significant in the subgroup of non-empty-nest elders, which is insignificant in the model of its counterpart.…”

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Exploring factors associated with self-treatment among different elder subgroups in rural China: a cross-sectional study

Xu¹,

Zhong²,

Pan³

et al. 2019

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Background Self-treatment is a common and widespread behaviour, of which the risks are multiplied in old age. However, the determinants of self-treatment among elders in the current rural China remain unclear. This study aims to explore the determinants of self-treatment among elders in rural China, focusing on context-specific and multi-dimensional factors. Methods Based on a multi-stage stratified random sampling method, a cross-sectional household survey was conducted among 30 villages in Sinan County, Guizhou Province in western China. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire on the healthcare needs of residents. The analysis was restricted to elders who reported illness within the last 2 weeks, and the final sample size was 338 (individuals). Pearson’s chi-squared test and binary logistic regression analysis were performed among the whole sample group and four subgroups. Results Approximately 25.94% of the 1303 elders reported illness within the last 2 weeks, of whom 34.4% indicated self-treatment. The variables independently associated with a greater probability of self-treatment in the whole sample group were better health status, no recent alcohol consumption and no utilisation of family practice services; the same predictors were found in the subgroup of elders with chronic diseases. No significant predictors were found in the subgroup of elders without chronic diseases. Empty-nest elders with higher affinity to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and drinking alcohol recently were less likely to self-treat. Non-empty-nest elders who were no less than 75 years old and at better health status were more likely to self-treat. Conclusion Better health status, no recent alcohol consumption and no utilisation of family practice are associated with self-treatment among rural elders. Advanced age and self-care habits in TCM also play roles in some subgroups. Deeper understanding of the self-treatment behaviour among rural elders may provide insights for developing improvement strategies of the family practice system in China.

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Factors Predicting Self-Care Behaviors among Low Health Literacy Hypertensive Patients Based on Health Belief Model in Bushehr District, South of Iran

Cited by 36 publications

References 25 publications

The Influence of Selected Variables on Lower Secondary School Students’ Concepts About Diseases

The Influence of Selected Variables on Lower Secondary School Students’ Concepts About Diseases

Prevalence and associated factors of self-treatment behaviour among different elder subgroups in rural China: a cross-sectional study

Exploring factors associated with self-treatment among different elder subgroups in rural China: a cross-sectional study

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