The high levels of healthcare utilization reported in our survey are also similar to those reported by other studies.
The inclusion of children with moderate to severe asthma in this study was based on patterns of medication and utilization reported during the previous 6 months.
For example, the Cochrane review of the impact of mass-media campaigns on healthcare utilization reported a consistent improvement in outcomes following campaigns [ 4].
The magnitude of these self-report errors will depend on a variety of factors including time, the type of health service utilization reported (including its salience in memory), the medical condition, and characteristics of the specific sample.
Health resource utilization reported by workers over the previous 6-month period and adjusted for covariates was significantly higher in the OA pain cohort than comparators across provider visit categories including use of non-traditional healthcare.
The costs will be estimated from health care utilization reported by subjects at the end of the trial using the Health Assessment Questionnaire that includes medication usage, hospitalization and health care professionals' visits.
Secondly we aimed to investigate potential underreporting of the history of symptoms, diagnoses and other health care resource utilization reported by interview at six-monthly visits at our clinical research unit.
The strong influence of nursing dependency on health care utilization reported by van den Bussche et al. [ 7] could also be found in the present study, and was found to be even stronger on the health care costs.
Moreover, most of the limited service utilization reported referred to social (e.g., food banks, shelters) rather than specific health or treatment services aiming at drug, or specifically crack, use problems.
This low mental health utilization pattern was also pervasive for women in Group 2. The low rates of mental health utilization reported in the quantitative analysis, in contrast to the serious mental health concerns reported by participants, led the authors to examine the research question: What are the perceived barriers to mental health utilization among participants?
