Investigation of Willingness and Influence Factors of Community Residents in Xiamen City to Participate in Family Hearing Care Services
10.3969/j.issn.1006-7299.2024.01.011
- VernacularTitle:厦门市社区居民对听力保健家庭医生服务签约意愿及影响因素研究
- Author:
Shirong XIE
1
;
Xiaojun WU
Author Information
1. 厦门大学附属妇女儿童医院,厦门市妇幼保健院耳鼻咽喉科,厦门市听力筛查诊断中心(厦门 361003)
- Keywords:
Family doctor services;
Hearing care;
Signing intention;
Influence factors
- From:
Journal of Audiology and Speech Pathology
2024;32(1):49-53
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To confirm the willingness of community residents in Xiamen to sign up for hearing care family doctors and its influence factors,and to provide reference for the follow-up promotion of the signing up with family doctors of hearing care.Methods From June to July 2022,a multi-stage stratified sampling method was used to conduct a questionnaire survey among 900 residents from 9 communities in Xiamen.The survey contents in-cluded sociodemographic characteristics,ear and hearing health knowledge and attitude,ear and hearing health be-havior.Chi-square test was used for univariate analysis and multivariate Logistic regression analysis were conducted to analyze the factors affecting the willingness to sign up for family service.Results A total of 900 questionnaires were distributed,and 887 were recared,with an effective return rate of 98.6%.A total of 54.9%(n=487)of the community residents were willing to accept the contracted service of family doctors for hearing health care.Multiva-riate Logistic regression analysis showed that knowledge level of ear and hearing health(OR=0.395,P<0.05),frequent ear cutting(OR=3.026,P<0.001)and frequency of otolaryngology(OR=0.399,0.024,P<0.001)was the influencing factor of community residents'willingness to sign a contract with family doctors for hearing health care.Conclusion Community residents in Xiamen have a high willingness to sign up for family doctor service for hearing health care.Residents with more ear and hearing health knowledge,good ear behavior and medical habits are more willing to sign up for family doctor services for hearing health care.