General Medicine
Online ISSN : 1883-6011
Print ISSN : 1346-0072
ISSN-L : 1346-0072
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Factors Affecting People's Preferences of Visiting a Kakaritsukei (Home-doctor)
Sayaka SekineKenichi KomatsuDai MatsushimaTaro TakeshimaRyusuke AeShinji FujiwaraEriko MatsushimaMasanobu OkayamaEiji Kaiji
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2010 年 11 巻 2 号 p. 71-77

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Objectives : To determine factors related to peoples' preference for visiting home-doctors when experiencing new health problems.
Method : A questionnaire survey was conducted of people receiving annual health checkups in municipalities in the vicinity of Jichi Medical University Hospital. We surveyed personal characteristics, test equipment, having of a home-doctor, and answers to an assumed scenario (asking about willingness to visit a home-doctor in case of getting certain health problems).
According to the responses to the scenario, we divided the subjects into two groups (a home-doctor group: visiting a home-doctor; and a specialist group: not visiting a home-doctor) and statistically compared the two groups.
Results : In the analytic sample of 1,829, the home-doctor group numbered 1,097 individuals (60%) and the specialist group numbered 732 individuals (40%). The home-doctor group statistically had more home-doctors than the specialist group (adjusted odds ratio, 95% confidence interval: 2.47, 2.00-3.05).
More home-doctors in the home-doctor group had test equipment than home-doctors in the specialist group: Gastrointestinal test equipment (gastroscopy, colonoscopy, or ultrasonography) (adjusted odds ratio, 95% confidence interval: 1.39, 1.06-1.83).
Conclusion : We revealed two factors relating to the preference for visiting home-doctors: First, those people had home-doctors, and, second, the home-doctors had test equipment.
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