Are marital relationships a barrier to health care utilization in Southern Appalachia?: A dyadic examination of the link between marital quality and individual health care usage.
Patricia N E RobersonKatherine A LengerTatiana GrayJames CordovaKristina C GordonPublished in: Families, systems & health : the journal of collaborative family healthcare (2020)
An individual's social context must be considered in order to completely understand barriers to health care utilization. Further, the inclusion of couple/dyadic level interventions should be considered in order to improve health care utilization in the Appalachian region and similarly rural regions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).