Role of Socio-cultural factors in “Health literacy of Specialist services utilization” in area of training health centre in India: A Cross-sectional study
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue 3
Abstract
Background:The influence & impact of socio-cultural factors upon health specialist services utilization is an upcoming issue in rural areas; where now specialized health services are also provided by training centre’s of medical colleges in both government and private sector. Material and Methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was carried out on patients in catchment area of a health training centre in a rural area( Bilaspur) of district Muzaffarnagar(UP)India from 1st Aug 2013 to 31st July 2014. Total 500 patients who attended and went to any type of health specialist OPD were randomly selected from nearly 1000 specialists in OPD during above period. For collecting data a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data by field workers posted at RHTC Bilaspur.Data was analyzed using Epi-info software version 7.1.3.3. and statistical significance was tested by applying Chi-Square test. Results: Majority of patients in study did health services utilization significantly (65%)(p<0.0001). The cultural practices of understanding of health messages were more in patients who attended surgical specialties(55%) as compared to health services utilization practices for any kind of disease, which was more among those who attended medical specialties(57.5%)(p<0.05).Conclusions: The socio-cultural practices of patients are significantly influencing the choice of specialty and their utilization tendency and reciprocally type of specialty use by patients also significantly impacts their socio-cultural practices; so both mutually emerge as significant associated factors in specialized services utilization from a health training centre of a private health institution, which can further clarified in more detail in future studies.
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Sanjeev Davey, Santosh Kumar Raghav, Anuradha Davey, Shailendar Singh, Khursheed Muzammil
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