RT Journal Article
T1 Personality variables as predictors of health services consumption
A1 Taboada Vázquez, Antonio
A1 González Rodríguez, Rubén
A1 Gandoy Crego, Manuel
A1 Clemente, Miguel
K1 3212 Salud Publica
K1 5312.07 Sanidad
K1 6114 Psicología Social
AB Expenditure on healthcare and services can be a serious problem for public health. Personality variables should be included as indicators to be considered when studying the consumption of health resources and their planning. This study aims to identify the psychological and psychosocial variables that identify people who can be considered high consumers of health resources versus those who barely consume such resources. The sample was made up of a total of 1124 subjects; one half were men, and one half were women, all of legal age and residents in Spain. A battery of tests was created that included a questionnaire of sociodemographic variables and of healthcare consumption, as well as several psychological variables (Zimbardo Time Paradox Inventory, Multidimensional Locus of Control Scale, Psychological Reactance Scale, Coping Responses Inventory, self-efficacy scale applied to health, and the Symptom Checklist-90-R). The following variables of the model were significant predictors (p ≤ 0.05): a negative past, a fatalistic present, psychological cognitive reactance, behavioral coping, health self-efficacy, and the level of somatization. Data from the statistical analyses show how to create a psychological profile of people who are high consumers of healthcare resources that will allow for the creation of intervention programs in this regard.
PB International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
SN 16604601
YR 2021
FD 2021-05-13
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/2785
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/2785
LA eng
NO International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(10): 5161 (2021)
DS Investigo
RD 13-oct-2024