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

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Sf12-v2 Questionaire
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Sf12-v2

Detailed Description

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.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 250

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Visitors at the outpatient clinics in the Galilee Medical Center

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult residents of the Western Galilee area

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non literate visitors

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Time Perspectives: Cross-Sectional

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	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	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

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Western Galilee Hospital-Nahariya
• Collaborators: University of Haifa

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: September 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 2, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 5, 2016
• First Posted (Estimate): May 9, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): May 9, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 5, 2016
• Last Verified: May 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Self-assessment of health, Sf12-v2
• Other Study ID Numbers: NHR-0049-14

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No