I want to explore health seeking behavior of ethnic minorities in London and its relation with various dimensions, such as age, generation, sex, SES, fatalistic view/spiritualistic belief etc. Can anyone tell me about any standardized tool to measure health seeking behavior?
I am also curious to find a tool. In some studies I reviewed they have used three different tools. I am looking for a single comprehensive tool.
thanks very much Fuad Almosa. It seems that qualitative way of investigation would yield valuable information.
Good Points! Good to look at it from the Anderson Health service utilization Model Perspective as it is mediated by Predisposing,Enabling and Need Factors.
Yes, I am looking at this as part of a explanatory sequential mixed -methods study and have struggled to find a single tool. As mentioned previously there are a number of determinants to consider, however I have come across the Conceptual Framework of Access to Health Care - by Levesque JF, et al. 2013 that has conceptualised 5 dimensions of accessibility of services and 5 corresponding abilities of persons / populations, which you may find helpful.
Hi. I want to conduct a similar research. Did you manage to find a single tool to assess health-seeking behaviours? Kindly share.
Hi,
I am also trying to get a validated one and struggling to find it.
Best,
Manoj
Sadly no tool is available to determine the level of health-seeking behaviour.
I developed sets of questions based on the following paper. Article Assessment of health seeking behaviour and self-medication a...