Barriers to Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Within the Military Healthcare System
Abstract
Traditionally, healthcare has been focused on illness and disease. Many researchers have described barriers in accessing care during illness. The purpose of this nonexperimental descriptive study was to determine if similar barriers were experienced in a managed-care system when people sought care for wellness activities in a military setting in the United States. The theoretical framework for this study is Pender's Health Promotion Model. According to Pender's Model, cognitive-perceptual factors such as perceived barriers determine participation in health promotion. The more barriers a person encounters in health promotion activities, the less likely that person will participate in health promotion activities. Data was collected from a large city with several military installations in the south central United States. The convenience sample consisted of active duty Air Force men and women currently enrolled in TriCare, the military's managed-care system. A modified version of a tool developed by K.A. Melnyk was used for data collection in this study. The survey tool had questions related to demographics and barriers which might have affected an individual's preventive care practices. More specifically, it included preventive care practices. More specifically, it included 33-items rated on a 4 point Likert scale related to five categories of barriers: fear, inconvenience, provider-consumer relationship, cost, and site-related factors.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 25, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA364096
Entities
People
- Gayla D. Mclaughlin
Organizations
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences