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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: BACKGROUND, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Emergency Service, Hospital, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Medically Underserved Area, Middle Aged, Neoplasm Grading, Prognosis, Prospective Studies, Prostatic Neoplasms, Quality of Life, Self Efficacy, Stress, Psychological.
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Is low self-efficacy associated with decreased emergency department use in underserved men with prostate cancer? Context: Self-efficacy has been strongly associated with health behavior and health maintenance. We examined the relationship between patient-provider self-efficacy and emergency department usage in low-income, underinsured, or uninsured patients with prostate cancer. We prospectively analyzed quality of life, behavior, and self-efficacy data from men enrolled in a state-funded program providing free prostate cancer care. We summarized patient characteristics stratified by self-efficacy scores (high, mid, and low) and by emergency department visit (any vs. none). We conducted a multivariate repeated measures regression analysis with negative binomial distribution to calculate predicted counts of emergency department visits over time across the self-efficacy strata. Our cohort included 469 men with a maximum follow-up time of 84 months. Of these men, 70 had visited the emergency department during their enrollment for a total of 118 unique visits. The regression analysis demonstrated a decreasing number of emergency department visits over time for the low (P = 0.0633) and mid (P = 0.0450) self-efficacy groups but not for the high self-efficacy group (P = 0.1155). Pain (22.9%), urinary retention (18.6%), and fever (5.9%) were the most common reasons for emergency department visits.
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Patients with low and mid self-efficacy had a decreasing number of emergency department usage over time. Those with high self-efficacy did not follow these trends. Interventions to improve communication between patients and primary treatment teams could prove beneficial in avoiding excess emergency department use. Final Decision: yes