Mostafa Abedi, Farhad Jafari, Ali Montazeri, Seyed Saeid Esmaeili Saber, Mohamad Gholami Fesharaki, Mohamad Bagher Hadavand,
Volume 3, Issue 4 (12-2020)
Abstract
Introduction: Human lifestyle is effective on their physical and mental health. Health care education can play an important role in improving people's behavior and lifestyle. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of using the health belief model in health care education based on Iranian medicine to the insured of the Iran Health Insurance Organization.
Methods: This quasi-experimental single-group study was performed in Tehran during 2017. Participants in this study were trained in face-to-face and virtual health preservation education according to Iranian Medicine resources based on health belief model. In this study, path analysis method, SPSS and AMOS softwares were used to analyze the data.
Results: The study was performed on 51 people (23 men and 28 women). The results of this study showed an explanation of R2=59% behaviors based on model constructs. Also, the results showed that with increasing the time of the study, the behavior of observing the principles of health care in accordance with Iranian medicine increases and the training has an increasing effect on self-efficacy, benefits, sensitivity and perceived severity and has a decreasing effect on perceived barriers. The results of path analysis (RMSEA = 0.031) also showed that the constructs of perceived sensitivity (0.16), perceived benefits (0.29), perceived intensity (0.15), self-efficacy (0.59) and time (0.47) increased behavior and barrier constructs. Perceived (-0.30) decrease behavior (P<0.001).
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, hygiene training can increase the stability of behavior (i.e. observance of hygiene principles) by emphasizing the benefits, barriers, perceived sensitivity and severity and self-efficacy of individuals.
Mozhgan Nezamzadeh Ezhieh, Shirin Nosratnejad, Maryam Moeeni,
Volume 5, Issue 2 (8-2022)
Abstract
Introduction: Awareness of benefiting from health services and its determinants is important for health care planning. In Andersen’s behavioral model, predisposing and enabling factors and factors related to need explain the use of health services. The purpose of this study is to identify the factors related to the use of inpatient services in Iran based on the mentioned model.
Methods: The present study is a secondary analysis study that was conducted based on the data of the national survey of the use of health services in 2008 and 2015. The number of sampled people was 8326 in 2008 and 5684 in 2015. Logit regression was used to examine the factors related to the use of health services.
Results: Female patients (OR=1.48, P<0.01), older patients (OR=0.01, P<0.05), patients whose needs were diagnosed by doctors or medical personnel (OR=1.98, P<0.01), patients whose head of household had higher than diploma education (OR=1.65, P<0.01), and residents of disadvantaged areas of the country (OR=1.42, P<0.05) were more likely to benefit from inpatient services. The chance of benefiting from inpatient services was higher in 2015 than in 2008 (OR=2.15, P<0.01).
Conclusion: Andersen’s Behavioral Model of Health Services can be a suitable the theoretical framework to explain the determinants of the use of inpatient health services in Iran. It is suggested that the 3 categories of factors constituting this behavioral model should be continuously considered in policies related to the use of inpatient services.
