1. Exploring the Associations Between Patient Affect, Self-Care Actions, and Emergency Department Use for Community-Dwelling Adults.
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Huey-Ming Tzeng, Pierson, James Marcus, Yu Kang, Barker, Anne, and Chang-Yi Yin
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AFFECT (Psychology) ,CHI-squared test ,STATISTICAL correlation ,EMERGENCY medical services ,HEALTH behavior ,HEALTH services accessibility ,EVALUATION of medical care ,MEDICAL care use ,RESEARCH ,STATISTICAL sampling ,HEALTH self-care ,T-test (Statistics) ,PATIENT participation ,STATISTICAL power analysis ,SECONDARY analysis ,INDEPENDENT living ,CROSS-sectional method ,DATA analysis software ,PATIENTS' attitudes ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,ADULTS - Abstract
Background: Nurses and other health care providers need to ensure that patients receive care that addresses their specific needs and wants. Purpose: This exploratory study examined the associations between patients' self-reported positive and negative affect, the perceived importance of 57 self-care actions, the desire and ability to perform them, and emergency department use in the past 3 months. Methods: A secondary analysis from a cross-sectional survey project that surveyed 250 community-dwelling adults living in the southern United States, 2015-2016. Independent t tests and the x2 test were used. Results: Positive affect was associated with positive perceptions of self-care actions and having no emergency department visit. Patients with a more negative affect perceived finding and using services that support their health behaviors as being important and expressed a desire to participate in local health screening or wellness events. Conclusions: Patients' perceptions of their self-care actions could lead to better outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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