Disability and satisfaction with access to health care

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Abstract
Three special area random digit dialled telephone surveys were conducted in Missouri State from 1995 through 1997. Surveys and subject selection were based on the methods of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a health survey supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Our outcome variable was disability status, based on a standard BRFSS question “are you limited in any way, in any activity, because of any impairment or health problem?” This question has been found to be reliable in disability samples, but groups together persons with disability who are fairly heterogeneous.3 4 Answers to the question: “How satisfied are you with your access to health care?” were categorised as positive or negative. We used logistic regression to compute the adjusted prevalence odds ratio (POR) to measure the association between disability and health care.