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- Title
Health insurance status, psychological processes, and older African Americans’ use of preventive care.
- Authors
O’Neal, Catherine W; Wickrama, K. A. S; Ralston, Penny A; Ilich, Jasminka Z; Harris, Cynthia M; Coccia, Catherine; Young-Clark, Iris; Lemacks, Jennifer
- Abstract
The current study examined the influence of health insurance, psychological processes (i.e. psychological competency and vulnerability), and the interaction of these two constructs on older African Americans’ utilization of five preventive care services (e.g. cholesterol screening and mammogram/prostate examination) using data from 211 older African Americans (median age = 60). In addition to direct effects, the influence of health insurance sometimes varied depending on respondents’ psychological competency and/or vulnerability. Policies and interventions to increase older African Americans’ use of preventive health services should consider structural (e.g. health insurance) and psychological (e.g. psychological competency and vulnerability) factors along with the interaction between these factors.
- Subjects
BLACK people; CHI-squared test; HEALTH behavior; INSURANCE; PREVENTIVE health services; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; SELF-efficacy; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Health Psychology, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 4, p491
- ISSN
1359-1053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1359105312474911