The effects of coping style and self-efficacy on health status and health care costs

The relationships between age, gender, coping styles, self-efficacy, health status, comorbidity, and health care use and costs were examined in an older HMO population suffering from osteoarthritis. Several models of the relationships between these variables were studied. Comorbidity and self-effica...

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Published in:Anxiety, stress, and coping stress, and coping, 1998-10, Vol.11 (4), p.311-325
Main Authors: Miller, Claudine, Cronan, Terry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Coping
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Health care costs
Health status
Illness and personality
Illness, stress and coping
Psychology and medicine
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Self-efficacy
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Summary:The relationships between age, gender, coping styles, self-efficacy, health status, comorbidity, and health care use and costs were examined in an older HMO population suffering from osteoarthritis. Several models of the relationships between these variables were studied. Comorbidity and self-efficacy together explained 18.6% of the variance in health status. Health status, age, comorbidity, distancing and accepting responsibility together explained 19.6% of the variance in health care use. Health status, age, distancing and accepting responsibility together explained 11.3% of the variance in health care costs. In addition, path analysis revealed that coping style has both a direct and indirect effect on health care utilization. Thus health care utilization appears to depend both on physical symptoms and on patients' response to those symptoms.
ISSN:1061-5806
1477-2205
DOI:10.1080/10615809808248317