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Perceptions of Roma People Towards Public Health System and a Classification into Homogeneous Groups Using K-means Cluster Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

M. Gouva ,
S. Kotrotsiou ,
K. Gourgouliannis  and
N. Skenteris
M. Gouva
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory Psychology of Patients Families and Health Professionals, Technological Educational Institute of Epirus, IOANNINA, Greece
S. Kotrotsiou
Affiliation:
Nursing, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece
K. Gourgouliannis
Affiliation:
Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece
N. Skenteris
Affiliation:
Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece

Abstract

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Background

The our knowledge about the attitudes of the Romatowards health system has not been fully investigated.

Objectives

To present theperceptions, the feelings and the beliefs of Roma people towards public healthsystem.

Aims

To investigate the attitudes of the Roma towards public health system

Methods

Participants were 361 Romani, living in the centralGreece area. The Others as Shamer Scale, Experience of Shame Scale, State/TraitAnxiety Inventory, Family Environment Scale and Symptom Check List wereadministered to collect the data along with a detailed questionnaire whichrecorded the social and economic factors that may affect the psychologicalcharacteristics studied. Perceptions and beliefs of Roma people towards publichealth facilities were recorded using the PBQ questionnaire that was designedand administered for first time in this study.

Results

Feelings of abandonment and social discriminationcorresponded to higher scores of shame. The inability to understand medicalinstructions, the feeling of being different and the need to surrounded byrelatives while in the hospital are correlated with psychopathology and shameindexes whereas strong family structure corresponds to improved perceptionstowards public health system. As an attempt to classify the respondents inhomogeneous groups towards their responses in PBQ questionnaire we appliedcluster analysis and a three group solution is proposed. Lack of education andharder living condition characterize the cluster with the most negativefeelings towards public health system.

Conclusions

. The results ofthis paper may be useful in policy makers and persons looking to create interventionsin this minority.

Type
Article: 0621
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 30 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 23rd European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2015 , pp. 1
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2015
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