|
KMID : 0379320020270010143
|
|
Korean Journal of Rural Medicine
2002 Volume.27 No. 1 p.143 ~ p.153
|
|
|
The Want for Home-Visit Health Care in Rural Olders
|
|
Kwag Hwa-Soon
Kam Sin
Kim Jong-Yeon
Ahn Soon-Ki
Jin Dae-Gu
Lee Kyung-Eun
Cha Byung-Jun
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
This study was performed to examine the want for home-visit health care of health center and health sub-center in rural olders and to provide the basic data to develop strategies for efficient and effective home-visit health care delivery of public health facilities. The questionnaire survey by interview was conducted to 355 olders whose ages were all over 65 years, residing at a rural community, Myun, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Among study population, 64.5% replied that their self-rated health status were‘poor’, 14.1% had low ADL and 14.9% had low IADL. Among study population, 73.5% replied that they had health problem which were in need of medical personnel’s care. The existence of health problem were significantly different according to sex, age, marital status, health security status, occupation, economic status, circumstances for medical care, self-rated health status, ADL, and IADL(p<0.05). Among olders with health problem which were in need of medical personnel’s care, 19.5% wanted to receive the home-visit health care. The degree of want for home-visit health care was higher significantly in olders whose ages were 75-year old or more(p<0.05), jobless olders(p<0.01), the aged persons who were not in harmony with other family members, olders whose self-rated health status were‘poor’ and olders with low IADL. The major reasons why they wanted to receive the home-visit health care services were‘they had no helpers when they were sick’(64.7%),‘long distance to the medical facilities from their residence’(23.5%). The medication service was the most need service among home-visit health care services. The reasons why they didn’t want to receive the home-visit health care services were‘we could walk and move’(60.0%),‘we wanted to have a direct contact with doctor’(25.7%) in the order of high rate. In multiple logistic regression analysis, the degree of want for home-visit health care were higher significantly in olders who were not in harmony with other family members and olders whose self-rated health status were‘poor’(p<0.05)
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Want, Home-visit health care, Rural olders
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|