HEALTH ACCESS, HEALTH STATUS, AND HEALTH ATTITUDES: PREDICTING WILLINGNESS TO USE ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSES.
Contributors: University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Health Care Management.
Description: Although the role of the advanced practice nurse is still relatively new, there is a growing body of research literature regarding the specialty's impact on health care delivery. These health care providers have the potential to be a viable alternative to traditional methods of providing health care to a variety of patients.

The purposes of this study were to: (a) identify the relationship between health care access and willingness to use advanced practice nurses; (b) identify the relationship between health care status and willingness to use advanced practice nurses; (c) identify the relationship between the demographic variables of age, race, gender, and socioeconomic variables and willingness to use advanced practice nurses; and (d) identify the relationship between attitudes toward health and willingness to use advanced practice nurses.

A correlational design was used to explore the relationship between variables. A reliability measure of.95 was achieved. Validity was achieved through a test-retest pilot study.

The findings of this study indicated that predictors of willingness to use advanced practice nurses were lack of high school education, receipt of Medicaid, purchase of food stamps, and expressed agreement with negative health attitudes. The diagnosis of emphysema and the presence of health limitations were also predictive of willingness to use advanced practice nurses. The failure to obtain screening breast exams and mammograms were predictors of women and their willingness to use advanced practice nurses. Health insurance and lack of health insurance were predictive of willingness to use advanced practice nurses.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-09, Section: B, page: 5574.

Thesis (D.S.N.)--UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM, 1996.

School code: 0005.