DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTHCARE DEMAND PROCRASTINATION SCALE: A RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY STUDY
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Tarih
2022
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Dokuz Eylul Univ Inst Health Sciences
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
Purpose: Maintaining a healthy life is the right of every individual. The important matter at this point is accepting early intervention without delaying healthcare demand and taking action for this intervention. Through this study, it was aimed to develop a measurement tool in order to determine the procrastination behavior for healthcare services demand among the individuals at the age of 18 and over. Methods: In the study, a questionnaire form that consists of the demographic variables (gender, age, marital status, education, chronic diseases, number of applications to the physician, access to physician, and health insurance) and informed consent was employed. Healthcare Demand Procrastination Scale (HDPS) was employed as well as the Health Seeking Behavior Scale (HSBS) for the validity of criteria. Analyses were conducted by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) and AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures). Results: No significant difference was found between the scores obtained through Kendall's test which was conducted in order to test the content validity of the scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed and as a result of the analysis, values of the goodness of fit were found normal and acceptable. HSBS was employed to ensure the criteria validity of the scale. A positive relationship was found between HDPS and traditional health-seeking behavior while there was a negative relationship with professional health-seeking behavior. In the Pearson correlation coefficient analysis which was conducted to reveal the correlation between test-retest scores, a statistically significant and positive relationship was observed between two measurements. Conclusions: As a result of the research, a scale which measures the healthcare demand procrastination behavior in Turkey was developed and validated. In addition, the healthcare procrastination behavior of individuals with a certain disease can also be examined through the developed scale.
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Health, health procrastination behavior, health-seeking behaviors, scale development
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Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences
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6
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2
