ABSTRACT

This study investigated the perceived health-care needs, unmet health need, and barriers to health care in 224 rural-dwelling adolescents. A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used to survey adolescents attending a public high school in a low-resource, rural Indiana community. One in five adolescents reported an unmet health need. The most common barriers to health care were related to access, apathy, anxiety, and parenting issues. Implications include confidentiality protocols in family healthcare practices, school-based health centers, and intervention research targeting adolescents’ communication skills and healthcare consumer skills.

中文翻译：

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生活在农村地区的青少年未满足的健康需求和明显的医疗保健障碍

摘要

本研究调查了 224 名农村青少年的感知医疗保健需求、未满足的健康需求以及医疗保健障碍。采用横断面、描述性设计来调查就读于资源匮乏的印第安纳州农村社区公立高中的青少年。五分之一的青少年表示健康需求未得到满足。最常见的医疗保健障碍与获取、冷漠、焦虑和养育问题有关。影响包括家庭医疗保健实践中的保密协议、学校健康中心以及针对青少年沟通技巧和医疗保健消费者技能的干预研究。