Are You Covered? Associations Between Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Knowledge and Preventive Reproductive Service Use.
Am J Health Promot
; 32(4): 906-915, 2018 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29121792
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
Sexual and reproductive health conditions (eg, infections, cancers) represent public health concerns for American women. The present study examined how knowledge of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) relates to receipt of preventive reproductive health services among women.DESIGN:
Cross-sectional online survey.SETTING:
Online questionnaires were completed via Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing website where individuals complete web-based tasks for compensation.PARTICIPANTS:
Cisgendered women aged 18 to 44 years (N = 1083) from across the United States.MEASURES:
Participants completed online questionnaires assessing demographics, insurance status, preventive service use, and knowledge of PPACA provisions.ANALYSIS:
Chi-squares showed that receipt of well-woman, pelvic, and breast examinations, as well as pap smears, was related to insurance coverage, with those not having coverage at all during the previous year having significantly lower rates of use. Hierarchical logistic regressions determined the independent relationship between PPACA knowledge and use of health services after controlling for demographic factors and insurance status.RESULTS:
Knowledge of PPACA provisions was associated with receiving well-woman, pelvic, and breast examinations, human papillomavirus vaccination, and sexually transmitted infections testing, after controlling for these factors. Results indicate that expanding knowledge about health-care legislation may be beneficial in increasing preventive reproductive health service use among women.CONCLUSION:
Current findings provide support for increasing resources for outreach and education of the general population about the provisions and benefits of health-care legislation, as well as personal health coverage plans.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Preventive Health Services
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Patient Acceptance of Health Care
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Reproductive Health Services
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Am J Health Promot
Journal subject:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Year:
2018
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Estados Unidos