Barton L J, Harvey C D, Barton D M
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 1979 Jun 15;134(4):477-83. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9378(16)33091-5.
Patients present or exhibit problems other than physical ones to their physicians and need access to some type of assistance for them. Over a 1 year period, women patients were referred to and seen by the medical social worker employed by a private obstetrics and gynecology clinic. Their social problems were studied by content analysis of patients' records, patients' social services cards, and monthly social services summaries. Results showed that 163 women exhibited 288 social problems consisting of three major types, financial, marital, and emotional. Various relationships were shown between the type of social problem and the primary reason the patient visited the clinic. It was also shown that if a patient has a financial problem, she is more likely to have a greater number of social problems than are other patients.
患者向医生提出或表现出身体问题以外的其他问题，并且需要获得某种形式的帮助。在一年的时间里，女性患者被转介给一家私立妇产科诊所雇佣的医务社会工作者并接受其诊治。通过对患者记录、患者社会服务卡和月度社会服务总结进行内容分析，研究了她们的社会问题。结果显示，163名女性表现出288个社会问题，这些问题主要分为三大类：经济问题、婚姻问题和情感问题。社会问题的类型与患者就诊的主要原因之间呈现出各种关系。研究还表明，如果患者有经济问题，那么她比其他患者更有可能出现更多的社会问题。
