RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The ultimate goal of health care systems is to improve overall health from the patient's point of view. However, overall self-rated health is not routinely monitored as a performance indicator. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using a measure normally employed in community health surveys as a quality indicator in primary care clinics. METHODS: In order to do so, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of community medicine patients treated in five clinics in Amarillo, Texas to test the theory that, in primary care patients, a single-item measure of self-rated health is significantly related to the usual risk factors found in community health surveys (environmental factors, demographic characteristics and health behaviours). RESULTS: Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that age, race, frequent mental distress, current smoking and health confidence were independently related to the odds of reporting good health. CONCLUSION: Our results support using a single-item measure of self-rated health in primary care. Our data also suggest that encouragement of health confidence would appear to be in the best interests of patients.
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The ultimate goal of health care systems is to improve overall health from the patient's point of view. However, overall self-rated health is not routinely monitored as a performance indicator. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of using a measure normally employed in community health surveys as a quality indicator in primary care clinics. METHODS: In order to do so, we conducted a cross-sectional survey of community medicine patients treated in five clinics in Amarillo, Texas to test the theory that, in primary care patients, a single-item measure of self-rated health is significantly related to the usual risk factors found in community health surveys (environmental factors, demographic characteristics and health behaviours). RESULTS: Multiple logistic regression analysis revealed that age, race, frequent mental distress, current smoking and health confidence were independently related to the odds of reporting good health. CONCLUSION: Our results support using a single-item measure of self-rated health in primary care. Our data also suggest that encouragement of health confidence would appear to be in the best interests of patients.
Authors: Jordi Alonso; Sukanta Saha; Carmen C W Lim; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola; Ali Al-Hamzawi; Corina Benjet; Evelyn J Bromet; Louisa Degenhardt; Giovanni de Girolamo; Oluyomi Esan; Silvia Florescu; Oye Gureje; Josep M Haro; Chiyi Hu; Elie G Karam; Georges Karam; Viviane Kovess-Masfety; Jean-Pierre Lepine; Sing Lee; Zeina Mneimneh; Fernando Navarro-Mateu; Jose Posada-Villa; Nancy A Sampson; Kate M Scott; Juan Carlos Stagnaro; Margreet Ten Have; Maria Carmen Viana; Ronald C Kessler; John J McGrath Journal: Schizophr Res Date: 2018-05-16 Impact factor: 4.939
Authors: Solveig A Arnadottir; Elin D Gunnarsdottir; Hans Stenlund; Lillemor Lundin-Olsson Journal: BMC Public Health Date: 2011-08-25 Impact factor: 3.295