Kahn K L, Goldberg R J, DeCosimo D, Dalen J E
Division of General Internal Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine 90024.
Arch Intern Med. 1988 Nov;148(11):2433-6.
Studying the health maintenance attitudes and behaviors of physicians (MDs) as patients provides information about health maintenance care in a group of individuals where preventive care might flourish. The present study reports the results of a survey of such attitudes and behaviors among 144 university-based MDs and 283 nonphysician doctoral faculty members (non-MDs) from two area universities regarding their personal health maintenance care in 1983. Respondents who reported having a personal MD (44% MDs, 74% non-MDs) were twice as likely to believe they should visit a physician regularly for health maintenance and three times as likely to actually visit a physician for health maintenance as those respondents without a personal physician. Both MDs and non-MDs described the need to visit the doctor more often than they actually reported doing so for health maintenance. However, MDs more often than non-MDs reported receiving the particular health maintenance procedures that are generally considered to constitute essential health maintenance care. A better understanding of health maintenance care by MDs and their non-MD colleagues provides insights into the use and misuse of clinical procedures in the asymptomatic adult.
将医生作为患者来研究其健康维护态度和行为，能为预防性保健可能蓬勃发展的一群人提供有关健康维护护理的信息。本研究报告了对两所地区大学的144名大学附属医院医生和283名非医生博士教员（非医生）就其1983年个人健康维护护理情况进行的此类态度和行为调查的结果。报告有私人医生的受访者（44%的医生，74%的非医生）认为自己应该定期看医生进行健康维护的可能性是没有私人医生的受访者的两倍，实际看医生进行健康维护的可能性是后者的三倍。医生和非医生都表示需要比他们实际报告的健康维护就诊频率更频繁地看医生。然而，与非医生相比，医生更常报告接受一般被认为构成基本健康维护护理的特定健康维护程序。更好地了解医生及其非医生同事对健康维护护理的情况，有助于深入了解无症状成年人临床程序的使用和滥用情况。
