SELF-CARE AMONG OLDER ADULTS
SELF-CARE AMONG OLDER ADULTS
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DOI：
10.1016/0277-9536(89)90165-2
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发表时间：
1989-01-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
NAMAZI, KH
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文献类型：
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作者：
HAUG, MR;WYKLE, ML;NAMAZI, KH
定义自我护理作为治疗的感知症状，本文假设，这种疾病行为的解释将根据所经历的症状是否被认为是不严重的，最适合自我治疗或更严重，不太可能响应自我护理。借用健康信念模型，纳入了两个主要概念，即健康集（由感知身体和心理健康的五项指标组成）和态度集（由对医生功效的四项信念指标组成），以解释所有报告的自我护理率症状。自我护理率，计算为在没有专业建议的情况下自行治疗的症状的百分比，症状被认为不太严重的人略高。自我评估健康的措施与那些不太严重的症状的自我护理有关，而对医生和健康的信心较低与认为更严重的疾病关系更密切。进一步研究的结果的影响进行了讨论。
Defining self-care as treatment for a perceived symptom, this paper posits that explanations for such illness behavior will differ depending on whether symptoms experienced are perceived as not serious and most amenable to self-treatment or more serious and less likely to respond to self-care. Borrowing from the Health Belief Model, two major concepts, a health set (consisting of five measures of perceived physical and mental health) and an attitude set (comprising four indicators of belief in physician efficacy) are included to explain rates of self-care across all reported symptoms. Self-care rate, calculated as the percentage of experienced symptoms self-treated without professional advice, was slightly higher for persons whose symptoms were seen as less serious. Measures of self-assessed health were related to self-care for those less severe symptoms, while lower faith in doctors as well as health were more closely related to the ailments percieved as more serious. Implications of the results for further studies are discussed.