Analysis on related factors with participation in communal physical examination among mid-aged and aged population in Shanghai city

  Objective   To find the related factors influencing the participation in the communal physical examination among the mid-aged and aged in Shanghai.All these would become a basis for better communal health services supply to improve the utilization of the services.

  Methods   2 972 subjects were selected and informed to participate in the communal physical examination by cluster sampling.1 404 subjects participated in the physical examination, while 1 568 didn't.Among those who didn't participate in the examination, 372 were sampled a trandom to know the reasons for not participating in the examination.

  Results   Except that 21.45% subjects hadn't been informed, the main reasons for not participating in the examimation were: having no time(35.38%), living far away form the location of the examination(11.97%), thinking oneself to be very healthy and having no interestin the examinatiion(10.03%)having had physical examination recently(9.19%)and not being able to par ticipate due to illness(2.51%).The demog raphic factors relating to participating in the communal examination mainly included age, gender, marital status, profession and income.

  Conclusion   For the sake of providing more effective services to the mid-aged and aged in the community, the problem of unfitted time and location should be solved, and their knowledge of health care should be improved as well.