34 While education strategies increase patients' willingness to choose self-care dialysis, 23 the wider effect of educational interventions in the dialysis setting that answer unmet questions about disease trajectory and treatment choices with the aim of improving patient experiences of end-stage kidney disease are not well understood and warrant larger-scale trials.
Using the current unmet needs question, "During the past 12 months, was there ever a time when you felt that you needed healthcare, but you didn't receive it?" [ 14] may not, by itself, be a valid indicator of unmet need.
"There's an aspect of wanting to get my life back, and that's still in process, but there's also unmet subconscious questions around what these feelings are actually about," she said.
A quantitative psychometric analysis could begin teasing apart whether the single unmet healthcare need question works differently across language groups or ethnicity.
Currently, there is no standardized translation of self-reported unmet healthcare needs questions in either Chinese or Punjabi.
God forbid that there would ever be an unanswered question, an unmet need, an unfilled silence.
This review clarifies the evidence on this point and, by comparing clinic-based and population-based evidence, can shed some light on the question of unmet need.
We measured subjective unmet need using the question, "Was there ever a time in the past 12 months when you thought you needed professional help for your social or emotional problems, but you did not seek professional help?" Of all respondents, 8.2% answered yes.
Remaining questions and unmet needs are also discussed.
The observed differences in self-reported unmet need present interesting questions about expectations.
