Exploring the Associations Between Patient Affect, Self-Care Actions, and Emergency Department Use for Community-Dwelling Adults

Abstract

Patients' perceptions of their self-care actions could lead to better outcomes.

Exploring associations between older adults’ demographic characteristics and their perceptions of self‐care actions for communicating with healthcare professionals in southern United States

“…CFAH's effort was intended to lead to purposefully pointed interventions to upkeep the ability of adults to engage in their health and health care (CFAH, , , ). Here, we adopted the assumption developed by previous studies (CFAH, ; Tzeng, & Pierson, , ; Tzeng, Pierson, et al, ) that supporting adult patients’ desires for self‐care and ability for health system navigation could lead to reduced healthcare costs.…”

“…This study was designed based on the Engagement Behavior (CFAH, 2010(CFAH, , 2014a(CFAH, , 2014b. Here, we adopted the assumption developed by previous studies (CFAH, 2010;Tzeng, & Pierson, 2017a, 2017bTzeng, Pierson, et al, 2019) that supporting adult patients' desires for selfcare and ability for health system navigation could lead to reduced healthcare costs.…”

“…A recent study conducted by Tzeng, Pierson, Kang, Barker, and Yin () found that community‐dwelling adults in the United States, who valued the importance of itemizing health‐related issues to discuss with their care providers, were less likely to have used emergency room services in the past 3 months. Additionally, adults who indicated that they were able to share their physical symptoms with their healthcare professionals were also less likely to have used emergency room services in the past three months (Tzeng, Pierson, et al, ).…”

“…A recent study conducted by Tzeng, Pierson, Kang, Barker, and Yin () found that community‐dwelling adults in the United States, who valued the importance of itemizing health‐related issues to discuss with their care providers, were less likely to have used emergency room services in the past 3 months. Additionally, adults who indicated that they were able to share their physical symptoms with their healthcare professionals were also less likely to have used emergency room services in the past three months (Tzeng, Pierson, et al, ). Similarly, a recent qualitative study exploring suggestions from older adults to promote patient‐engaged health delivery in western Canada revealed older adults’ desire to have a conducive clinical environment that fosters effective communication with their healthcare providers (Tzeng, Okpalauwaekwe, et al, ).…”

Are older adults’ demographic characteristics social determinants of their perceived importance, desire, and ability to perform end‐of‐life self‐care actions?

“…Two hundred fifty subjects (a response rate of 82%) completed the survey. A detailed description of the methodology employed in the study has been published . This paper only includes responses from participants aged 65 years and older (N = 123).…”