This study was conducted to analyse attitudes to a new health care system in a rural community. The specific purpose of this thesis was to classify attitudes to the patient referral system in Kangwha county, and to identify factors affecting the attitudes.
Sampling was done by a multi-stage stratified cluster sampling method´ from the population. The data were collected in Kangwha county through a structured interview survey for two weeks in June, 1987.
Attitudes to the patient referral system were classified into four types based´ upon answers to questions about awareness of the system, the recognition for the necessity of the system, and opinions on the improvement of the system. The four types of attitudes were active acceptance(10.2 %), partial acceptance (27.2%), refusal(35.8 % ), and indifference(26.7 % ).
The respondent´s age, educational level, age of head of household, medicalinsurance fee, the number of ill family members, and the percentage of medical utilization by the family were the variables which affected the attitudes.
The medical insurance fee, respondent´s age, age of head of household, and the percentage of medical utilization by the family were the statistically significant discriminant factors of the four types of attitudes.
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