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International Journal of Behavioral Medicine

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01.09.2010

Do Healthy People Worry? Modern Health Worries, Subjective Health Complaints, Perceived Health, and Health Care Utilization

verfasst von: Kelly B. Filipkowski, Joshua M. Smyth, Abraham M. Rutchick, Alecia M. Santuzzi, Meera Adya, Keith J. Petrie, Ad A. Kaptein

Erschienen in: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Ausgabe 3/2010

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Abstract

Background

Modern health worries (MHW) are concerns related to modern or technological features of daily life (e.g., air pollution, x-rays, food additives, etc.), and have been associated with subjective health complaints (SHC) and health care use.

Purpose

The MHW scale was expected to predict aspects of health status in healthy individuals (e.g., health care visits, health perceptions, and medication use). SHC was thought to mediate the relationship between MHW and health care use. Likewise, negative affect was considered to mediate the relationship between MHW and SHC.

Method

University students (n = 432) completed assessments for MHW, SHC, perceptions of health, medication use, and health care visits.

Results

MHW were positively related to the number of subjective health complaints with negative affect partially driving this relationship. MHW were negatively related to reports of present health and medication use. MHW were marginally related, whereas SHC were significantly associated with health care utilization.

Conclusion

Concerns over modern technology appear to influence symptom reporting, perceptions of current health, medication use, and, to a degree, visits to health care providers even in young healthy samples.

Due to the relatively new development of the MHW scale, there are no longitudinal studies that confirm this conceptualization. This is discussed as a limitation and suggestion for future research.

These models used a logarithmic link function; thus, regression weights should be interpreted as logarithmic transformations of the weights.

Prior to conducting regression analyses, a factor analysis of the MHW scale was conducted. We found the same general structure that previous research has validated and generalized [11, 17]. Further information is available upon request from the authors.

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Titel: Do Healthy People Worry? Modern Health Worries, Subjective Health Complaints, Perceived Health, and Health Care Utilization
verfasst von: Kelly B. Filipkowski
Joshua M. Smyth
Abraham M. Rutchick
Alecia M. Santuzzi
Meera Adya
Keith J. Petrie
Ad A. Kaptein
Publikationsdatum: 01.09.2010
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Ausgabe 3/2010
Print ISSN: 1070-5503
Elektronische ISSN: 1532-7558
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-009-9058-0

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Do Healthy People Worry? Modern Health Worries, Subjective Health Complaints, Perceived Health, and Health Care Utilization

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Method

Results

Conclusion

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