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- The study examined what factors contributed to unmet healthcare needs during the early COVID-19 pandemic in Seoul, South Korea, identifying specific demographics that faced accessibility issues.
- Researchers used a cross-sectional online survey with 813 participants, focusing on factors like age, sex, health status, and income, informed by the Andersen model of healthcare utilization.
- Results revealed that women, younger individuals, and those with lower education or chronic diseases were more likely to experience unmet healthcare needs, emphasizing the need for targeted measures from the government to improve healthcare access during such crises.
Article Abstract
Objectives: This study investigated the factors influencing unmet healthcare needs of people during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Seoul, South Korea. The findings help to identify people who have difficulty accessing healthcare services during a pandemic situation.
Design: We conducted a cross-sectional study using a proportionate quota sampling method according to five major districts, sex and age, using an online survey. We analysed the key characteristics of influencing factors of unmet healthcare needs based on the Andersen behavioural model of healthcare utilisation: predisposing factors (eg, sex, age), need factors (eg, health status, illness) and enabling factors (eg, income, efficacy belief).
Setting: The questionnaire was sent via email and mobile text messages from the end of April to the beginning of May 2020 during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Participants: A sample of 813 respondents was used, and the respondent information was anonymised in the analysis process.
Results: For the predisposing factors, sex, age, education level and occupational cluster were associated with unmet needs for healthcare. Chronic diseases and mental health were the influencing factors as an enabling factor that exerted an influence on the unmet need for healthcare in South Korea. Women, younger persons, those with lower education and persons with white-collar jobs were more likely to experience unmet healthcare needs. In addition, the more chronic diseases people had, the more COVID-19 negatively affected them mentally; and the more people felt fear of COVID-19, the higher chances they experienced unmet healthcare needs.
Conclusion: Government and policymakers are guided to draw out measures such as health communication and telemedicine to reduce the unmet healthcare needs during the pandemic and to recognise the different influencing factors.
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