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Service Demand for and Awareness of a Primary Healthcare Pilot Project for People With Disabilities.
Kim, Hye-Jin; Jang, Soong-Nang; Lim, Jae-Young.
Affiliation
  • Kim HJ; Gyeonggi Regional Health & Medical Center for People with Disabilities, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
  • Jang SN; Red Cross College of Nursing, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Lim JY; Gyeonggi Regional Health & Medical Center for People with Disabilities, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
J Korean Med Sci ; 37(30): e241, 2022 Aug 01.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35916049
BACKGROUND: This study investigated the demand for and awareness of a primary healthcare pilot project for people with disabilities; it also sought to identify relevant determinants for demand and awareness using Andersen's behavioral model of health service use. METHODS: This study is a secondary analysis of data from the population-based survey conducted in Gyeonggi Regional Health & Medical Center for People with Disabilities. The data was designed with quota random sampling based on the population with disabilities in each district (city [si] and county [gun]) across the Gyeonggi province (do) to evaluate the health and healthcare accessibility of the disabled people living in the Gyeonggi province. The data was collected through the mobile-based survey of 1,140 people with disabilities living in Gyeonggi-do between March 2021 and June 2021. RESULTS: Awareness of the service (12.1%) was remarkably low, while the demand (80.5%) was high. The gap between respondents who needed the service but were unaware of it differed according to age, education, activities of daily living, health information sources, chronic disease, depression, subjective health status, and unmet healthcare needs. Chronic disease (odds ratio [OR], 1.86; P = 0.001) and an unmet need for medical care (OR, 2.30; P = 0.002) had significant influences on demand for the service. Furthermore, living alone (OR, 0.42; P = 0.023), medical aid program beneficiary status (OR, 2.10; P = 0.020), access to health information from health service centers (OR, 4.00; P = 0.002), chronic disease (OR, 1.68; P = 0.043), severity of disability (OR, 1.78; P = 0.025), and subjective health status (OR, 4.51; P < 0.001) significantly affected awareness of the program. CONCLUSION: Chronic disease and an unmet need for medical care were key determinants of service demand, while the severity of disability was not. Thus, there is a need to review the initiative that defines service beneficiaries as people with severe disabilities. Policy makers should consider advertising programs to improve service awareness among people with disabilities.
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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Disabled Persons / Health Services Needs and Demand Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: J Korean Med Sci Journal subject: MEDICINA Year: 2022 Type: Article

Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Disabled Persons / Health Services Needs and Demand Limits: Humans Language: En Journal: J Korean Med Sci Journal subject: MEDICINA Year: 2022 Type: Article