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Personality Variables as Predictors of Health Services Consumption.
Taboada-Vázquez, Antonio; Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Ruben; Gandoy-Crego, Manuel; Clemente, Miguel.
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  • Taboada-Vázquez A; Department of Psychology, Universidade da Coruna, 15071 A Coruna, Spain.
  • Gonzalez-Rodriguez R; Department of Social Work, Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain.
  • Gandoy-Crego M; Department of Psychiatry, Radiology and Public Health, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15890 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
  • Clemente M; Department of Psychology, Universidade da Coruna, 15071 A Coruna, Spain.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34068016
Expenditure on healthcare and services can be a serious problem for public health. Personality variables should be included as indicators to be considered when studying the consumption of health resources and their planning. This study aims to identify the psychological and psychosocial variables that identify people who can be considered high consumers of health resources versus those who barely consume such resources. The sample was made up of a total of 1124 subjects; one half were men, and one half were women, all of legal age and residents in Spain. A battery of tests was created that included a questionnaire of sociodemographic variables and of healthcare consumption, as well as several psychological variables (Zimbardo Time Paradox Inventory, Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale, Psychological Reactance Scale, Coping Responses Inventory, self-efficacy scale applied to health, and the Symptom Checklist-90-R). The following variables of the model were significant predictors (p ≤ 0.05): a negative past, a fatalistic present, psychological cognitive reactance, behavioral coping, health self-efficacy, and the level of somatization. Data from the statistical analyses show how to create a psychological profile of people who are high consumers of healthcare resources that will allow for the creation of intervention programs in this regard.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Adaptação Psicológica / Autoeficácia Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Adaptação Psicológica / Autoeficácia Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2021 Tipo de documento: Article