title: Predictors of health education and nonmedication treatment in adult outpatients with diagnosed cardiac conditions.
abstract: The premise of this study was to assess what factors predict the provision of health education and nonmedication treatment for adult cardiac outpatients. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was carried out on 2005 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data to determine the odds of provision of health education or nonmedication treatment in respect to age, sex, ethnicity, body mass index, insurance type, smoking status, diabetes status, and receipt of medication in 278 cardiac patients aged 18 to 64 years who visited outpatient departments in 2005. Approximately 48% of cardiac outpatients were offered health education and 32% nonmedication therapy. Cardiac outpatients who were older, obese, and female were less likely to receive health education or nonmedication treatment during their visits. Eliminating such disparities to comprehensive cardiac outpatient care will elicit favorable outcomes to the patient and health care system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383, USA. smetz@wcupa.edu
authors.forename: Stacie M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Metz
authors.forename: Mihir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Raval
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic