Hello internet! Help me with my schoolwork!

[the_wanlorn]

Hello internet! How are you today? I'm doing well!

So, I need to give this survey to eight people. And it's way easier to get my flist to do it than to go find eight people who I know and get them to do it. So! Here is a survey about "important issues today related to women’s health." I'm the only person who can see the answers. It would make my day if you (YES, YOU) would fill it out before midnight. Because that is when the ~analysis paper~ is due.

♥

Poll #5862 Women's Health Questionnaire

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 33

Age:

Race:

Gender:

ave you ever had to delay or go without the health care you needed because:

you couldn't afford it?
20 (66.7%)

you didn't have insurance?
17 (56.7%)

you couldn't get child care?
1 (3.3%)

you couldn't get there?
8 (26.7%)

you couldn't get time off work?
10 (33.3%)

you just plain ol' didn't have time?
20 (66.7%)

When you need information on a particular health issue, which, if any, of these sources do you turn to first—a health care provider, books, the internet, family and friends, a pharmacist, or some other source?

During the last 12 months, have you spent less on basic needs for your family, such as food or electricity, so that you would have enough money for your medicines?

Yes
3 (9.1%)

No
27 (81.8%)

Don't know
1 (3.0%)

N/A
2 (6.1%)

IF YOU ARE A CAREGIVER: how concerned are you about each of the following.

Balancing care-giving with other responsibilities
1 (50.0%)

Having enough time for your family
1 (50.0%)

Maintaining your own health
2 (100.0%)

How many times, have you visited a doctor or health care provider in the last 12 months?

1 - 4 times
16 (48.5%)

5 - 9 times
11 (33.3%)

10+ times
6 (18.2%)

In the last 12 months, was there ever a time when you:

were not able to see a specialist when you thought you needed one?
11 (50.0%)

felt you did not have enough personal control over decisions affecting your own medical care?
10 (45.5%)

had concerns about the quality of care you received?
12 (54.5%)

tried to see a new doctor but could not because the doctor was not taking new patients?
8 (36.4%)

Thinking about your last doctor’s visit, did you understand all of the information the doctor gave to you?

Yes
31 (93.9%)

No
2 (6.1%)

In the past five years, has a doctor told you that you have any of the following health problems or conditions?

High blood pressure
2 (9.1%)

Heart disease
1 (4.5%)

Stroke
0 (0.0%)

Cancer
0 (0.0%)

Diabetes
2 (9.1%)

Anxiety/Depression
16 (72.7%)

Thyroid problems
5 (22.7%)

Osteporosis or brittle bones
0 (0.0%)

Arthritis
4 (18.2%)

Asthma/Respiratory condition
2 (9.1%)

High Colesterol
5 (22.7%)

Obesity
7 (31.8%)

Comments

[amaresu]

During the last 12 months, have you spent less on basic needs for your family, such as food or electricity, so that you would have enough money for your medicines?

My N/A answer is because I'm not currently on my medication because I can't afford it.

[azurelunatic]

Ditto.

[shadowkitty]

Lol one of the few reasons I like living in England. Also lol asking this THE DAY MY DAD GETS HIT BY A CAR.

[fox1013]

*raises hand*

Just basic medical-type doctors, or do- say- psychologists count too?

For example.

Cause that changes my answer dramatically.

[the_wanlorn]

Psychologists totally count!

lol inorite? :D:

[azurelunatic]

For a set of responses from gender "Female, geek", please amend the response to be *0* health care visits in the last 12 months.

Does it count if you told the doctor that you most likely had any of the listed conditions although you had never been diagnosed, and the doctor did not dispute these comments?

[amethystfirefly]

I said n/a on the medication thing because my roommate picks up my copays. If she were to lose her job, I'd be without my meds. :/

[onceamy]

I answered yes to "were not able to see a specialist when you thought you needed one?", as I've often considered asking for a psych referral, and been put out by CFS-hatred in that field. I wish there was a vetoing system for psychiatrists.

[kate]

Um, two things about my answers (and is this the one I was supposed to take before?). 1. I have not been to the doctor in over a year, so there were actually 0 visits for me in the last 12 months. 2. Before that, I hadn't been to the doctor for more than 5 years, so, that last question doesn't really work for me.

I'm generally healthy, and I've had crappy insurance for a while, and money problems. The insurance is better now (like I had when I was in Portland, when I actually, you know, saw doctors and shit), but the money is still tight, and I like to save it because Wee is going to need the health care more than me, I think.

[the_wanlorn]

If you moved to lolsachusetts she would have insurance!

EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO BEAT THIS DEAD HORSE SOME MORE.

[kate]

She has insurance! I pay for it through the nose!

But nice try, bb.

[the_wanlorn]

YYY but I think the way Massachusetts does it is by income? I mean, I'm not sure how they do it when two people live together, but I know mine was free at the time because I had no job.

[kate]

Ah, but she's my dependent, so we're a unit. I claim her on my taxes and everything. Thus I think the salary counts for both of us? Though... you have actualfax marriage, so that's probably a state thing.

[the_wanlorn]

Oh, then yeah, you're fucked. :( SRY BB

[kate]

S'all good. I don't mind paying her insurance, I've been doing it for years. <3

[kerrypolka]

FTR the times I haven't been able to see people have all been in the US. I have had precisely 0 problems with health care availability (including being able to take time off work) and affordability in the UK, although I have had to wait a while for some specialist things like anxiety treatment. I am currently waiting to hear whether my PCT will fund my ADHD treatment, though, so my answers may change if it doesn't.