Seeking emotional support in primary care physicians by seniors

Kemicer-Chmielewska, Ewa; Kotwas, Artur; Zabielska, Paulina; Rotter, Iwona; Pierzak-Sominka, Joanna

doi:10.5114/fmpcr/58732

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“…But the effect may also depend on patients' health condition. In general, people who are in worse health tend to feel more serious about their condition and have a bigger need for emotional support (Kemicer-Chmielewska et al, 2015). Such patients tend to better appreciate the help received from their social connections (Choi and Dinitto, 2013).…”

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Health IT in our daily life: impact of mobile phone use on the emotions and compliance of diabetes patients

Zhang

Liu²,

Li³

et al. 2022

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PurposeLeveraging information technology (IT) to improve the treatment and support of patients is a widely studied topic in healthcare. For chronic diseases, such as diabetes, the use of information technology is even more important since its effect extends from a clinic environment to patients’ daily life. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of one widely adopted information technology, the mobile phone, on diabetes treatment, specifically on the complicated process of patients’ health, emotions and compliance.Design/methodology/approachWe leverage a unique longitudinal dataset on diabetes patients’ health status in rural areas of China to study the problem. We also cross-link the dataset with mobile carrier data to further differentiate mobile phone use to phone calls and network use. To address the endogeneity concerns, we apply PSM and a series of instrument variables.FindingsWe identify clear evidence that mobile phone use can significantly improve patients’ emotions and compliance, where the effect is generally larger on patients in worse health conditions. While mobile phone calls clearly benefit diabetes patients, we do notice that mobile phone network use has a negative moderating effect with patients’ health condition on improving compliance.Originality/valueThis study not only enriches our theoretical understanding of the role of mobile phones in diabetes management, it also shows the economic benefit of promoting patients’ use of mobile phones, which should be considered by medical care providers and medical policymakers.

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Health IT in our daily life: impact of mobile phone use on the emotions and compliance of diabetes patients

Zhang

Liu²,

Li³

et al. 2022

ITP

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Importance of Social Relationships in Patients with Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Kurpas

Szwamel²,

Mroczek

2016

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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The literature lacks reports on the role of the social relationships domain (SRD) of quality of life (QoL) in shaping care for patients with chronic respiratory diseases in primary care. In this study we examined a group of 582 patients with chronic respiratory diseases and chronic non-respiratory diseases recruited from 199 primary care centers. In the patients with chronic respiratory diseases, higher SRD correlated with more frequent patient visits due to medical issue, fewer district nurse interventions over the past 12 months, less frequent hospitalizations over the past 3 years, and fewer chronic diseases. In these patients, a high SRD was most effectively created by high QoL in the Psychological, Environmental, and Physical domains, and the satisfaction with QoL. Programs for preventing a decline in SRD should include patients with low scores in the Psychological, Environmental, and Physical domains, those who show no improvement in mental or somatic well-being in the past 12 months, those with a low level of positive mental attitudes, unhealthy eating habits, and with low levels of met needs. Such programs should include older widows and widowers without permanent relationships, with only primary education, living far from a primary care center, and those whose visits were not due to a medical issue.

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Seeking emotional support in primary care physicians by seniors

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Health IT in our daily life: impact of mobile phone use on the emotions and compliance of diabetes patients

Health IT in our daily life: impact of mobile phone use on the emotions and compliance of diabetes patients

Importance of Social Relationships in Patients with Chronic Respiratory Diseases

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