探索联系:医疗保险覆盖和美国成年人中历史性物质使用模式-基于NHANES的分析
Evans F Kyei1, Lingling Zhang1
1Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA.
Policy, politics & nursing practice
|February 27, 2024
概括
医疗保险与药物使用史有关. 缺乏保险会增加吸毒的几率,而大多数吸毒者都是有保险的. 这突出了物质使用行为中的复杂因素.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 医疗保健服务研究 医疗服务研究
背景情况:
- 药物使用模式受到各种人口和社会经济因素的影响.
- 了解这些影响对于制定有效的公共卫生干预措施至关重要.
- 医疗保险状态是一个关键的社会经济变量,可能会影响物质使用.
研究的目的:
- 通过使用国家健康和营养检查调查 (NHANES) 数据库,分析美国成年人的物质使用模式.
- 调查医疗保险覆盖和药物使用史之间的联系.
- 检查种族/种族,年龄,性别和社会经济地位在物质使用中的作用.
主要方法:
- 对NHANES数据库 (2016-2018) 的分析,涉及6108名年龄在18-64岁之间的美国成年人.
- 鉴定有药物使用史的参与者 (n=1,063).
- 后勤回归分析以根据保险状况确定药物使用史的概率,控制人口统计.
主要成果:
- 医疗保险和药物使用史之间存在显著的相关性;80%的使用者有保险.
- 缺乏医疗保险与有毒物质使用史的可能性增加有关 (OR = 1.43,p < .01).
- 非西班牙裔白人,老年人 (50-64岁) 和男性在物质使用者中占比不成.
结论:
- 吸毒是一个复杂的问题,受到保险状况,种族/种族,年龄和性别的影响.
- 公共卫生战略必须解决这些因素的相互作用,以全面预防和治疗物质使用.
- 自我报告的数据需要谨慎的解释,因为潜在的测量偏差.
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