Unmet Health Needs among Sohag University Students | ||
| Sohag Medical Journal | ||
| Volume 28, Issue 2., 2024, Pages 82-90 PDF (1.08 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/smj.2024.266254.1449 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mariam Elshmandy* 1; Fouad M.A. Yousef2; Tasneem Bakheet3 | ||
| 1Public health department,sohg university | ||
| 2Public health and community medicine | ||
| 3public health department,sohag university | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: The gap between the amount of healthcare services believed to be required to treat a particular medical problem and the services actually received is referred to as unmet health needs. Objectives: This study aimed at studying the unmet health needs among university students and their causes: either problems of service availability or accessibility or acceptability. Method: it is a cross-sectional study including 435 university students in Sohag University, the University students were randomly chosen by a stratified random sample from randomly selected 4 faculties. The study was done using a questionnaire in the academic year 2023. Results: This study was performed on 435 university students, of whom (44.1%) reported unmet health needs. As regard causes of unmet health needs, 70.8% of those who had unmet health needs reported acceptability problems, while 68.2% reported service availability problems. Conclusions: The highest percentage of the studied population who had unmet health needs reported that there were service acceptability problems and then, the availability problems. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Unmet health needs; availability; accessibility; acceptability problems Introduction: | ||
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