| This study examined physician trust, access to care, use of care, and satisfaction with care among women using data from the 1998--1999 Household Component of the Community Tracking Study. An expanded version of Andersen's (1968, 1995) Behavioral model of health care access and usage was used to determine the important predisposing, enabling, need, and other predisposing---physician trust---characteristics associated with access, use and satisfaction.;The findings show that need and other predisposing factors were the most important predictors of access, use, and satisfaction with care. Moreover, other predisposing factors showed the strongest associations with access, use, and satisfaction. Women who distrust their physicians were more likely to have access to care problems, were less likely to visit the physician, and were more likely to be dissatisfied with health care services. |
