The Correlation Between Health Status and Self-Assessment of Health Condition, and the Relation to Health Services Utilization

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study aims to examine the relation between health status and self-assessment of health condition, their relation to healthcare services utilization, and also to identify the profile of those who assess their health condition as mediocre to poor in general population and according to nationality.

Detailed Description
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Background: The World Health Organization defines health as a state of physical, mental and social well-being of an individual, and not just the absence of disease or illness. Health self-assessment is almost never present in medical and clinical models, which define health as the absence of physical disease. On the one hand, some say that there is a correlation between these definitions, and others argue that self-assessment of health is not always consistent with the clinical health status evaluation. Few studies have examined the relationship between self-assessment and health status among residents of the State of Israel in general and among the population residing in the Galilee and Western Galilee area in particular. The studies presented contradictory findings about the health perception among Jewish and Arab population. There are about 600,000 residents in Western Galilee from various population sectors, including Jews, Arabs, Druze and others. This composition of population pretty much reflects the general composition of population in the Galilee area. Study objective: This study aims to examine the relation between health status and self-assessment of health condition, their relation to healthcare services utilization, and also to identify the profile of those who assess their health condition as mediocre to poor in general population and according to nationality. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 250 visitors aged 18 and above of outpatient clinics in the Galilee Medical Center (former Western Galilee Hospital): opthalmology, dental, otolaryngology (ENT) and orthopedic. The target population group for this study is adult residents of the Western Galilee area. The sampling is random. For the aims of the survey five sampling days were selected in each of the four outpatient clinics. On each of the sampling days all visitors of different outpatient clinics were offered to complete a self-administered structured questionnaire adapted specifically for the study.

Official Title
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The Correlation Between Health Status and Self-Assessment of Health Condition, and the Relation to Health Services Utilization

Conditions
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Sf12-v2 Questionaire

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Sf12-v2


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Adult residents of the Western Galilee area Exclusion Criteria: Non literate visitors

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Arms and Interventions

| Intervention/Treatment |
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|Other: Sf12-v2|structured questioner Sf-12v2, developed by Ware.et al (Ware, Kosinski, Turner-Bowker & Gandeck, 2002).|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A questionnaire on the self-assessment of one's health condition reflecting the physical condition and the illness status |  | 10 minutes | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A questionnaire used to correlate between illness status and health services utilization |  | 10 minutes | 
| A questionnaire on the self-assessment of good health condition compared between Jews and Arabs. |  | 10 minutes | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Self-assessment of health, Sf12-v2