Marital status of a patient in the formation of his attitude to the organization of medical care provided on an outpatient basis

Introduction. The marital status of the patient is an important factor that affects his behavior, attitude to health and the healthcare system. Family relationships can have a positive or negative impact on the level of self-esteem, general psychological stability and readiness for treatment. For example, many people in stable relationships are more likely to monitor their health, visit doctors regularly and receive the necessary medical care. However, there are also negative aspects of marital status that can affect the patient's attitude to the healthcare system. For example, some patients may experience fear and embarrassment when seeking medical care without their spouse or partner. There are also cases when a patient's unwillingness to go to doctors is due to the fact that he does not want financial or emotional help from his family, but prefers to cope with his problems on his own. Thus, marital status is an important factor that must be taken into account when analyzing the attitude of patients to the healthcare system. Studying this problem can help medical institutions develop more effective service strategies and increase patient satisfaction.

Materials and methods. For the analysis, 495 patients of medical organizations in Moscow were obtained by questioning. Two comparison groups were formed, the main group (the presence of marital relations) 292 people, the control group (the absence of marital relations) 203 people. Taking into account the nonparametric distribution of the primary data, the criterion of the reliability of differences χ² was used to compare the groups, and the association coefficient was used to determine the dependence K_a.

Results. According to the results of the analysis, taking into account the literature data, data on different approaches to the assessment of the medical care management system in patients with different family status were obtained.

Conclusions. Family patients are more critical of the organization of the activities of individual departments of the polyclinic, but their criticism does not lead to a significant decrease in the overall assessment of the medical organization. Lonely patients make fewer specific claims, but reduce the overall assessment of the medical organization's activities.

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