PMID: 9419959Jan 7, 1998Paper

Puerto Rican patients travel to Puerto Rico: assessing the effect on clinical care

Connecticut Medicine
J Plant, H J Keating

Abstract

To examine travel habits of Puerto Rican patients and assess the potential effect of this travel on their health care. Interview and survey of patients. Urban medical clinic. Two hundred consecutive, self-identified Puerto Rican patients presenting for follow-up care. Immediately prior to a follow-up office visit, patients were interviewed in either Spanish or English. The patients' age, sex, education level, employment status, and place of birth were recorded. The patients were asked questions concerning the principle place of residence of their family members, their ability to speak English, and their preferences in television and radio programs. Patients who had visited Puerto Rico were asked about the duration and purpose of their most recent trip and about the health care they received in Puerto Rico. Chi-square testing was applied to categorical data and t tests for continuous data; P values were calculated using the SPSS statistical analysis program. Of the 200 subjects, 110 (55%) had traveled to Puerto Rico in the last five years and 90 (45%) had not. The patients who traveled were more likely to have been born in Puerto Rico, less likely to speak English, and less likely to listen to English-language programs. A majori...Continue Reading

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