Autoeficacia y salud

Abstract

The use of health care is not only determined by the complexity of the health process or by the functional state of the patient, but also by other variables, including psychological ones. The aim of this work was to study the incidence of specific psychological characteristics, to assess to what extent these are related to integration into the world of work and to study which psychological and psychosocial variables allow us to identify people who can be considered high consumers of health care resources. Three cross sectional observational and correlational studies were carried out on different samples (n1=438; n2=1332; n3=1124) made up of adults living in Galicia. The results indicate that it would be possible to establish a differentiating profile in which variables linked to self efficacy and an optimistic view of the world identify people with a lower probability of consuming health resources. Likewise, the categories of active worker, pre retired or retired would imply differential psychological profiles.