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Research Article

Healthcare Decision-making: Targeting Women as Leaders of Change for Population Health

Michele McCarroll1*, Karen Frantz1, Tiffany Kenny1, Jennifer Doyle1, David Gothard2 and Vivian E1
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Summa Health, Akron, USA
2Biostats of Ohio Inc., East Canton, USA
*Corresponding Author : Michele McCarroll
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Summa Health System, Akron, USA
Tel: 330-375-4880
E-mail: mccarrollm@summahealth.org
Received: January 22, 2016 Accepted: February 19, 2016 Published: February 27, 2016
Citation: McCarroll M, Frantz K, Kenny T, Doyle J, Gothard D, et al. (2016) Healthcare Decision-making: Targeting Women as Leaders of Change for Population Health. J Preg Child Health 3:221. doi:10.4172/2376-127X.1000221
Copyright: © 2016 McCarroll M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

This pilot study was a prospective survey of n = 500 postpartum mothers and n = 36 obstetricians (OBs) to assess characteristics, opinions, and experiences of healthcare. A convenient sample of women on the postpartum floors and OBs were invited to participate in a survey. The survey was distributed from 2013 to 2014 investigating general opinions from women about healthcare decision-making, healthcare experiences during a healthcare stay after delivery, and overall quality of life using the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System. The majority of women indicated that they made the healthcare decisions for themselves, n = 278 (57.3%) versus n = 191 (39.3%) indicated her and her spouse/partner together made healthcare decisions for her. Interestingly, only 39.3% (n = 69) of women reported that their spouse/partner were the only ones involved in their healthcare decisions whereas women reported to be more jointly involved in healthcare decisions of their spouse’s/partner’s health, n = 313 (66.6%). PROMIS® scores had a significant relationship (p = 0.022) in the global mental domain to age and insurance type with accessing the same facility for future healthcare. Further analysis revealed a significant (p = 0.013) relationship as PROMIS® global mental scores go down, the increased willingness to return to the same birthing facility for future healthcare goes up. Two specific PROMIS® global mental questions were identified as having a significant (p = 0.008) or trending towards significant (p = 0.08) negative value for Kendall’s tau indicating that the lower the score on the PROMIS® global mental question, the more likely they are to visit the same birthing facility in the future for other healthcare procedures. A substantial amount of women are responsible for their family’s health. Future studies should have a longitudinal design to assess the true lifetime impact of the birth experience for a woman on healthcare decision-making for her family.

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