Variations in perceived primary healthcare access across family structures and their predictors in adolescents
Kénora Chau A B E , Jean-Charles Vauthier C and Bernard Kabuth D
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A Département de Médecine Générale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Lorraine, 9 avenue de la Forêt de Haye, CS50184, F-54505 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
B INSERM Centre d’Investigations Cliniques Plurithématique 1433, UMR 1116, CHU de Nancy, rue du Morvan, F-54511 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
C Maison Médicale, 226 rue Poirie, F-88200 Dommartin-lès-Remiremont, France.
D Université de Lorraine, Faculté de Médecine, Service de Pédopsychiatrie, Hôpital d’Enfants de Nancy-Brabois, rue du Morvan, F-54511 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
E Corresponding author. Email: c.kenora@yahoo.fr
Australian Journal of Primary Health 23(2) 132-139 https://doi.org/10.1071/PY15159
Submitted: 28 October 2015 Accepted: 28 June 2016 Published: 17 August 2016
Abstract
Families have greatly changed over time and little is known about primary care access barriers for adolescents associated with family type. We assessed family disparities in lack of listening and treatment explanations (LLTE) by general practitioners (GP), lack of treatment adherence (LTA) and GP change and the confounding roles of socioeconomic factors, school, behaviour and health difficulties among 1559 middle-school-aged (9.9–18.8 years old) adolescents who completed a questionnaire on sex, age, socioeconomic characteristics (family structure, nationality, parents’ occupation, education and income), school performance, substance use, physical health, psychological health, social relationships, living environment, LLTE by GPs, LTA and GP change. Data were analysed using logistic regression models. LLTE, LTA and GP change affected 22.3, 38.0 and 7.3% of subjects respectively. Compared with the adolescents living in intact families, and controlling for sex and age, those with separated or divorced parents or reconstructed families and those with single parents respectively had 1.58- and 1.96-times higher LLTE risk and 1.48- and 1.72-times higher LTA risk. Adolescents with separated or divorced parents or reconstructed families had 1.92-times higher GP-change risk. Socioeconomic factors explained 16–36% of LLTE or LTA risks, but not GP-change risk. Further considering school, behaviour and health difficulties explained 55–87% of LLTE or LTA risks and 27% of GP-change risk. In conclusion, changes in family situations may have produced more non-intact families and adolescents with greater socioeconomic, school, behaviour and health difficulties. These factors are strong barriers to primary care access and may warrant prevention targets for adolescents, their parents, schools and GP.
Additional keywords: adolescent–GP information exchange, behaviours-related factors, GP change, health-related factors, socioeconomic factors, treatment adherence.
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