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Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Attending health checkups as a primary prevention strategy benefits older adults in facilitating the identification of health issues and risk factors for disease. Little is known about factors influencing participation in and satisfaction with a free annual elderly health checkup program...

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Autores principales: Chen, Ying-Jen, Lin, Chiou-Fen, Feng, Jie, Chiu, Huei-Ling
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10177394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37188280
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1104438
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author Chen, Ying-Jen
Lin, Chiou-Fen
Feng, Jie
Chiu, Huei-Ling
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Lin, Chiou-Fen
Feng, Jie
Chiu, Huei-Ling
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description BACKGROUND: Attending health checkups as a primary prevention strategy benefits older adults in facilitating the identification of health issues and risk factors for disease. Little is known about factors influencing participation in and satisfaction with a free annual elderly health checkup program (EHCP) in Taiwan. This study aimed to extend current knowledge related to the uptake of this service and individuals' views of the service. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study using a telephone interview survey method to compare influencing factors and satisfaction between participants and non-participants of an EHCP. The individuals involved were older adults in Taipei, Taiwan. The random sampling method included 1,100 people, 550 older adults who had participated in the EHCP within the last 3 years, and 550 older adults who had not. A questionnaire containing personal characteristics and satisfaction with the EHCP was used. Independent t-test and Pearson's Chi-squared test were used to evaluate differences between the two groups. Associations between individual characteristics and health checkup attendance were estimated using log-binomial models. RESULTS: Results showed that 51.64% of participants reported being satisfied with the checkups; however, only 41.09% of non-participants were satisfied. In the association analysis, age, educational level, chronic diseases, and subjective satisfaction were related to older persons' participation. Furthermore, having a stroke was associated with a higher attendance rate [prevalence ratio: 1.49; 95% confidence interval: (1.13, 1.96)]. CONCLUSIONS: The EHCP had a high proportion of satisfaction among participants, but the proportion was low among non-participants. Several factors were associated with participation and might lead to unequal healthcare service uptake. Health checkups need to increase among people at a young age, those with low educational backgrounds, and those without chronic diseases.
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spelling pubmed-101773942023-05-13 Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study Chen, Ying-Jen Lin, Chiou-Fen Feng, Jie Chiu, Huei-Ling Front Public Health Public Health BACKGROUND: Attending health checkups as a primary prevention strategy benefits older adults in facilitating the identification of health issues and risk factors for disease. Little is known about factors influencing participation in and satisfaction with a free annual elderly health checkup program (EHCP) in Taiwan. This study aimed to extend current knowledge related to the uptake of this service and individuals' views of the service. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study using a telephone interview survey method to compare influencing factors and satisfaction between participants and non-participants of an EHCP. The individuals involved were older adults in Taipei, Taiwan. The random sampling method included 1,100 people, 550 older adults who had participated in the EHCP within the last 3 years, and 550 older adults who had not. A questionnaire containing personal characteristics and satisfaction with the EHCP was used. Independent t-test and Pearson's Chi-squared test were used to evaluate differences between the two groups. Associations between individual characteristics and health checkup attendance were estimated using log-binomial models. RESULTS: Results showed that 51.64% of participants reported being satisfied with the checkups; however, only 41.09% of non-participants were satisfied. In the association analysis, age, educational level, chronic diseases, and subjective satisfaction were related to older persons' participation. Furthermore, having a stroke was associated with a higher attendance rate [prevalence ratio: 1.49; 95% confidence interval: (1.13, 1.96)]. CONCLUSIONS: The EHCP had a high proportion of satisfaction among participants, but the proportion was low among non-participants. Several factors were associated with participation and might lead to unequal healthcare service uptake. Health checkups need to increase among people at a young age, those with low educational backgrounds, and those without chronic diseases. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-04-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10177394/ /pubmed/37188280 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1104438 Text en Copyright © 2023 Chen, Lin, Feng and Chiu. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Chen, Ying-Jen
Lin, Chiou-Fen
Feng, Jie
Chiu, Huei-Ling
Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
title Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
title_full Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
title_short Influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
title_sort influencing factors of participation in and satisfaction with elderly health checkups: a cross-sectional study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10177394/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37188280
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1104438
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