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Health-Seeking Behavior and its Determinants for Different Noncommunicable Diseases in Elderly

Steady improvement in quality of life has led to increased survival time of elderly, especially of those with noncommunicable diseases. A study about their health-seeking behavior (HSB) and its determinants is essential for provision of comprehensive care and facilitate policy development. A cross-s...

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Autores principales: Prabhakar, Tushar, Goel, Manish Kumar, Acharya, Anita Shankar
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082383
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_106_22
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author Prabhakar, Tushar
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description Steady improvement in quality of life has led to increased survival time of elderly, especially of those with noncommunicable diseases. A study about their health-seeking behavior (HSB) and its determinants is essential for provision of comprehensive care and facilitate policy development. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 350 elderly participants over 60 years of age in an urbanized village of Delhi. Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, and detailed general and systemic examination was done. Tests of significance were applied to assess the HSB with various demographic, clinico-social, and economic variables. A total of 87.4% of the study population was suffering from at least one noncommunicable disease (NCD). Majority of the study subjects’ NCDs (72.66%) were diagnosed while getting treatment for a symptom of the disease. Also, 52.94% of the participants had inappropriate HSB. HSB was significantly associated with gender, age, duration of illness, and importantly with modifiable variables like the level of literacy, distance of preferred health facility, and presence of multimorbidity. HSB was found to be inappropriate in over half of the participants. Policymaking should focus on modifiable variables like education, distance of health facility, and multimorbidity, especially for commonly ignored diseases like osteoarthritis and diabetes.
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spelling pubmed-101127522023-04-19 Health-Seeking Behavior and its Determinants for Different Noncommunicable Diseases in Elderly Prabhakar, Tushar Goel, Manish Kumar Acharya, Anita Shankar Indian J Community Med Short Communication Steady improvement in quality of life has led to increased survival time of elderly, especially of those with noncommunicable diseases. A study about their health-seeking behavior (HSB) and its determinants is essential for provision of comprehensive care and facilitate policy development. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 350 elderly participants over 60 years of age in an urbanized village of Delhi. Data was collected using a semi-structured questionnaire, and detailed general and systemic examination was done. Tests of significance were applied to assess the HSB with various demographic, clinico-social, and economic variables. A total of 87.4% of the study population was suffering from at least one noncommunicable disease (NCD). Majority of the study subjects’ NCDs (72.66%) were diagnosed while getting treatment for a symptom of the disease. Also, 52.94% of the participants had inappropriate HSB. HSB was significantly associated with gender, age, duration of illness, and importantly with modifiable variables like the level of literacy, distance of preferred health facility, and presence of multimorbidity. HSB was found to be inappropriate in over half of the participants. Policymaking should focus on modifiable variables like education, distance of health facility, and multimorbidity, especially for commonly ignored diseases like osteoarthritis and diabetes. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10112752/ /pubmed/37082383 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_106_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Journal of Community Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_sort health-seeking behavior and its determinants for different noncommunicable diseases in elderly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10112752/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37082383
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_106_22
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