Abstracts
Résumé
Objectifs : L’objectif de cette étude était, premièrement, de documenter les propriétés psychométriques d’une mesure du statut socioéconomique des personnes âgées et, deuxièmement, de documenter l’effet du statut socioéconomique sur l’association entre le besoin ressenti d’améliorer sa santé mentale et l’utilisation des services de médecine générale par les personnes âgées en tenant compte de l’effet de l’âge et du genre.
Méthode : Les données utilisées pour cette étude proviennent de l’étude ESA (Enquête sur la santé des aînés) sur la santé mentale et le vieillissement, réalisée en 2005-2008 auprès d’un échantillon probabiliste (n = 2811) de la population âgée de 65 ans et plus vivant à domicile au Québec.
Résultats : Nos résultats ont montré qu’un modèle de mesure du statut socioéconomique des personnes âgées, incluant une dimension individuelle (SSE_I) et contextuelle (SSE_C) de défavorisation, était plausible. La fiabilité de la mesure du statut socioéconomique utilisée dans le cadre du programme de recherche ESA était de ,92. Nos résultats ont montré que les femmes (b = -,43) ainsi que les personnes plus âgées (b = -,16) avaient un statut socioéconomique plus défavorisé. Cependant, nos résultats n’ont montré aucune association significative entre le statut socioéconomique, la perception du besoin d’améliorer sa santé mentale et l’utilisation des services de médecine générale chez les personnes âgées au Québec.
Nos résultats ne confirment pas l’idée avancée dans d’autres études selon lesquelles le statut socioéconomique a un effet sur l’utilisation des services de médecine générale par les personnes âgées et suggèrent que, dans un contexte où les services de santé sont donnés dans le cadre d’un programme d’assurance public, le statut socioéconomique n’influence pas l’accès aux services de médecine générale chez les personnes âgées.
Mots-clés :
- épidémiologie,
- services de médecine générale,
- vieillissement,
- statut socioéconomique
Abstract
Objectives: The objective of this study was, first, to document the psychometric characteristics of a measure of the older adults’ socioeconomic status and, secondly, to test the effect of the socioeconomic status on the association between the older adults perceived need to improve their mental health and their use of services in the general medical sector for psychological distress symptoms taking into account the effect of age and gender.
Method: Data used in this study come from the ESA study (Enquête sur la santé des ainés) on mental health and aging, conducted in 2005-2008 using a probabilistic sample (n=2811) of the older adult population aged 65 years and over living at home in Quebec.
Results: Our results showed that a measurement model of the older adults’ socioeconomic status including an individual-level (SES_I) and an area/contextual-level dimension of socioeconomic deprivation (SES_C) was plausible. The reliability of the SES index used in the ESA research program was .92. Our results showed that women (b=-.43) and older people (b=-.16) were more at risk to have a disadvantaged socioeconomic status. However, our results did not show evidence of a significant association between the older adults’ socioeconomic status, their perception of a need to improve their mental health and the use of medical services for psychological distress symptoms in the general medical sector in the older adult population in Quebec.
Conclusion: Our results do not support the idea suggested in other studies that socioeconomic status has an effect on the older adults use of services for psychological distress symptoms in the general medical sector and suggest that in a context where medical health services are provided under a public insurance programme context, the socioeconomic status does not influence access to services in the general medical sector in the older adult population.
Keywords:
- epidemiology,
- general medical sector,
- aging,
- socioeconomic status
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