title: Gender differences in community services knowledge, needs, and use among older African-Americans.
abstract: The primary purpose of this study was to compare knowledge of use of and need for community services between older (60 years of age and older) African-American men and women. A secondary purpose was to determine whether predisposing, enabling, and health-status factors could predict knowledge of need for, and use of specific community services among African-American women and men, 60 years of age and older Data were gleaned from a community-based random telephone survey of African-Americans (77 female and 23 male), 60 years of age and older, living in northeastern Ohio. Data generated from this study were analyzed using chi-square, and independent samples t-test, and multiple regression. Findings from this study suggested that women had higher levels of knowledge of use of and need for community-specific services than their male counterparts. Another finding from this study suggested that none of the identified predisposing, enabling, and health-status factors found in this study could plausibly explain knowledge of need for, or use of community-specific services.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing and Health, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Yvonne.Lu@Wright.edu
authors.forename: Yueh-Feng Yvonne
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: May
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wykle
authors.forename: Elizabeth A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Madigan
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006299:Health Services for the Aged / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009820:Ohio; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors