Yang Keun Kim, Hye Won Kim, Jae Yong Paik, Chang Bin Hong, Kayoung Lee, Tae-Jin Park,
Jinseung Kim
Department of Family Medicine, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea
Background: Active patient participation in health care
decision-making can results in better medical outcomes.
This study's purpose is to investigate the association
between the patient participation and the diseases often
encountered in primary care.
Methods: We used the data from the Korean National Health
and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted in
2015 which included 4,158 adults aged older than 19 and
who had no missing data. The association between
the presence of disease or the number of accompanying
diseases and the active patient participation in the
treatment decision was studied. Logistic regression analysis
was conducted using complex sampling design in
each sex.
Results: After adjusting for confounding variables, the
relationship between active patient participation and the
diagnosis of hypertension, odds ratio (OR) was 1.95 (95%
confidence interval [CI], 1.25-3.04) for men and 1.83
(95% CI, 1.27-2.65) for women. In women diagnosed with
diabetes, OR was 0.58 (95% CI, 0.35-0.97). Between
active patient participation and increasing number of
accompanying diseases have positive tendency but not
statistically significant.
Conclusions: This study suggests that active patient
participation is related to the diagnosis of hypertension,
and the number of accompanying diseases and active
patient participation were not significantly associated.
This is a rare study related to the active patient participation
in the Korean population, that it may be helpful in
establishing further relevant research and strategies to
increase the patient participation rate.
Korean J Health Promot 2017;17(3):152-160
Keywords: Patient participation, Hypertension, Compliance |