TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial Factors Related to Underuse of Medical Services
AU - Zhang, Chenshu
AU - Brook, Judith S.
AU - Leukefeld, Carl G.
AU - Brook, David W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NIH grants DA032603 and DA003188 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded to Dr. Judith S. Brook. The authors wish to thank Dr. Stephen J. Finch for his critical review of this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The New York Academy of Medicine.
PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - In this longitudinal study, we applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the historical, predisposing, enabling/barrier, and need factors as related to the underuse of medical services during early midlife. We gathered longitudinal data on a prospective cohort of community-dwelling men and women (N = 548) followed from adolescence to early midlife. The findings supported a mediational model: A mutually affectionate parent–child relationship in early adolescence was inversely related to underuse of medical services in early midlife via the mediational roles played by later predisposing factors (i.e., depressive mood and cigarette smoking), need factor (i.e., physical health problems), barriers (i.e., financial difficulty), and enabling factors (i.e., social support for health services in early midlife). In addition, satisfaction with medical services in the neighborhood had an association with less underuse of medical services in early midlife. Family therapy focused on an increase in the affectionate relationship between the adolescents and his/her parents and cognitive-behavioral treatment of depressive mood may lead to a decrease in the underuse of medical services.
AB - In this longitudinal study, we applied structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the historical, predisposing, enabling/barrier, and need factors as related to the underuse of medical services during early midlife. We gathered longitudinal data on a prospective cohort of community-dwelling men and women (N = 548) followed from adolescence to early midlife. The findings supported a mediational model: A mutually affectionate parent–child relationship in early adolescence was inversely related to underuse of medical services in early midlife via the mediational roles played by later predisposing factors (i.e., depressive mood and cigarette smoking), need factor (i.e., physical health problems), barriers (i.e., financial difficulty), and enabling factors (i.e., social support for health services in early midlife). In addition, satisfaction with medical services in the neighborhood had an association with less underuse of medical services in early midlife. Family therapy focused on an increase in the affectionate relationship between the adolescents and his/her parents and cognitive-behavioral treatment of depressive mood may lead to a decrease in the underuse of medical services.
KW - Cigarette smoking
KW - Depressive mood
KW - Financial difficulty
KW - Longitudinal study
KW - Neighborhood medical services
KW - Parent–child relationship
KW - Physical health problems
KW - Social support
KW - Underuse of medical services
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U2 - 10.1007/s11524-016-0067-4
DO - 10.1007/s11524-016-0067-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 27464919
AN - SCOPUS:84980048046
SN - 1099-3460
VL - 93
SP - 652
EP - 665
JO - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
JF - Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
IS - 4
ER -
