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Research on Aging, Vol. 17, No. 4, 434-458 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/0164027595174004

Self-Health Care among the Elderly

A Test of the Health-Behavior Model

Cary S. Kart

University of Toledo, fac0114{at}uoft0l.utoledo.edu

Carol A. Engler

University of Toledo

Data from a U.S. sample of 714 respondents aged 55 years and over were used to test the efficacy of the health-behavior model for explaining self-health care practices and attitudes. Three different indicators of self-health care, including a measure of actual self-care behavior and two attitudinal indicators, normative self-care response and global self-care, were employed in this work. Hierarchical ordinary least squares regression modeling yielded R2s consistent with those reported in the extant literature on health-services utilization. A difference with this literature, however, was that the net contribution of predisposing characteristics was found to be larger than that of enabling and need characteristics combined for all three indicators of self-health care.


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