| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 公共衛生學研究所 === 81 === The aims of the study were to investigate factors related to
children''s use of Chinese Medicine clinics. Using the Andersen''
s Health Behavior Model, a questionnaire-interview was taken
in Chung-Li city from September to November in 1992. A
systematic sample of 516 children aged 12-19 month was
selected, 420 cases accomplished the study (the response rate
was 81.4%).The subjects of this interview were chief care-taker
of children. The major results were as follows : (1) The
proportion of children who received each type of medical
care when they were sick were Western Medicine clinics
99.0%, Chinese Medicine clinics 39.0%, Western Medicine
dealers 11.4%, Chinese Medicine dealers 5.2% , respecitively.
(2) In the 164 children who have visited Chinese Medicine
clinics, the percentage of 1-3,4-10,over 10 visits were
71.3%,24.3% and 4.3%, respectively. (3) The age of children
who received Chinese-style medical care for their illness
in the first time was less than 1 month to 18 month, median 7
month. The major causes were respiratory tract disease (74.7%)
and gastro- intestinal disease(16.3%). (4) Logistic
regression showed that children with characteristics listed
below tend to use Chinese- Medicine clinics : nativity of
Taiwan, odds ratio(O.R.)=1.62, 95% confidence interval(C.
I.)=1.07-2.44; the habit to use Chinese- style Medicine of
chief care-taker, O.R.=1.69, 95% C.I.=1.28-2.23 ;moderate or
high satisfication to Chinese-Medicine services,O.R. =1.48 (95%
C.I.=1.06-2.05) or O.R.=2.39 (95% C.I.=1.73-3.29); moderate and
high degree of behavior predisposition to Chinese- style
Medicine, O.R.=1.90 (95% C.I.=1.12-3.23); or O.R.=3.16 (95% C.
I.=1.90-5.24); fair and poor perceived health status by chief
care-taker, O.R.=1.32 (95% C.I.=1.00-1.75) or O.R.=2.27 (95%C.
I.= 1.27-4.06). Finally, the policy and research
implications were discussed in this article.
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