1999
DOI: 10.1300/j013v28n02_04
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Rural Women's Satisfaction and Stress as Family Health Care Gatekeepers

Abstract: Women shoulder much of the responsibility for their families' health care, making women's satisfaction with available services an important issue for their families and for women's personal stress levels. Lack of services and resulting stress may be acute for rural women, the focus of this study. In a state-wide survey, fewer than one-half of rural women were satisfied with the health services available; dissatisfaction was a strong determinant of women's stress over health care issues. Rural women are at risk… Show more

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“…The child's health insurance status was included, because access to care is associated with parent stress. 25 Characteristics of the parents included education, employment, and parental health. Perceived neighborhood support for parenting was measured with 4 items pertaining to neighbors' willingness to help.…”
Section: Parental Stressmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The child's health insurance status was included, because access to care is associated with parent stress. 25 Characteristics of the parents included education, employment, and parental health. Perceived neighborhood support for parenting was measured with 4 items pertaining to neighbors' willingness to help.…”
Section: Parental Stressmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Finally, it is well documented that women tend to make household health decisions. In the Appalachian region, women tend to take on strong leadership in both familial and community health promotion [24]. Without insights into knowledge and attitudes among women on HPV vaccination, it is unlikely that these technologies will be readily and efficiently adopted.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rural economics contribute to the increased life course stress for women because women are often the family health care gatekeepers (Hemard, Monroe, Atkinson, & Blalock, 1998). Limited services, long distances, financial worries, and chronic health problems are constants for many rural women (National Rural Health Association, 2005;Sullivan, Weinert, & Cudney, 2003).…”
Section: Grandmother-mothering and Ruralitymentioning
confidence: 99%