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2001 CHAP
Telephone Survey
What Is the Health Status of the
Population
The
telephone survey contained one question about the health status of
the respondent and others living in their household. The question
is from the Quality of Life and Functional Status measure and was
developed by the Aging Studies Branch of the Centers for Disease
Control for use with the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance
System (BRFSS). In this report, unweighted responses to the
health status question for adults aged 18 to 64 years in the 2001
and 1996 Sedgwick County CHAP telephone surveys are compared.
The health status question
asked, “How would you rate your current health status? Would you
say it is excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?” Overall,
the self-reported health status of respondents is excellent to
very good (61.9%), and 26.9% reported that their health is good.
However, 11.2% reported fair or poor health (see
Figure 2). The
health of other persons residing in the respondents home was also
rated positively overall. When 2001 and 1996 results are
compared, there is a statistically significant difference in
health status perceptions (c2=13.461,
df=4, p=.009) (see Table 9). This difference appears to be
related to a lower percentage of 2001 respondents who perceive
their health as very good. The 1996 CHAP showed approximately 12%
of telephone survey respondents reported their health as fair or
poor, approximately 28% said good, and nearly 60% judged their
health as excellent or very good. When health status is analyzed
by age strata, a pattern emerges (see
Figure 3). Younger
respondents perceived their health as good, very good or
excellent, whereas perceptions of poor health increase with age.
Analysis of the Sedgwick County
BRFSS data for 1998-99 shows comparable findings in relationship
to national and state BRFSS information. Just fewer than 60% of
those Sedgwick County residents surveyed rated their health as
excellent or very good. This distribution is comparable to the
results obtained from the 1999 BRFSS survey national and state
data, 57.1%, 28.5%, and 13.1% respectively, and in Kansas—58.9%,
28.3%, and 12.9% respectively (see
Graph 6).
According to Sedgwick County
BRFSS data, a majority of Sedgwick County residents are unaffected
by poor physical and mental health. When asked, “for how many
days during the past 30 days was your physical health not good?”
two-thirds of Sedgwick County residents responded none, whereas
20.7% responded up to one week, and an additional 11.6% responded
up to one month. Sedgwick County findings are comparable to state
and national (see Graph 7). The same question was asked in
relationship to mental health with similar findings. Again, just
over two-thirds of Sedgwick County residents responded their
mental health was good on all days of the previous month, whereas
19.1% responded that their mental health was not good for up to
one week, and an additional 12.5% responded their mental health
was not good between 8 and 30 days. Sedgwick County findings are
comparable to state and national statistics (see
Graph 8).
When asked “For how many days of
the last 30 did poor physical or mental health keep you from doing
your usual activities?” a vast majority (81.5%) of Sedgwick County
respondents indicate none, while 11.4% and 7.1% report up to seven
and 30 days, respectively. Once again, Sedgwick County findings
are comparable to national statistics but are slightly higher than
Kansas’s statistics (see Graph 9).
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