Navy Family Separation and Physician Utilization.

Abstract

During a seven-month investigation of family separation, the wives of Naval personnel aboard ships which were deployed visited the doctor significantly more often than wives of personnel who were at home. During family separation, wives who were younger, caucasian, had higher levels of psychological distress, and had a chance locus of control orientation were more likely to exhibit more physical symptoms. The best predictors of physician utilization were number of symptoms and working outside the home. Results are discussed in terms of a preventive medicine hypothesis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 19, 1980
Accession Number
ADA158145

Entities

People

  • D. S. Nice

Organizations

  • Naval Health Research Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical Research
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Navy
  • New York
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Physicians
  • Regression Analysis
  • Security
  • Ships
  • Social Sciences
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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