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Students consult their doctor less and prefer self-medication
Worldwide | |By Matteo Maillard
Lack of money, students consult their doctor less and sometimes renounce toheal. This is the worrying observation that stands the last survey health emeVIa student mutual network that publishes LeMonde.fr preview. Conducted by the CSA polling institute, the 8th edition of this study is based on a questionnaire answered by 8,078 students.
Over the last twelve months, 79.2% of students consulted a healthcare professional. If this number seems important first sight, it reveals a decline in the use of consultation, even when health deteriorates. In 2013, students were still 83.1% to make visit to their doctor when they felt sick. Rather than visit, 54.1% of respondents now prefer to wait until the illness passes. A choice they often justify for financial reasons.
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In place of a consultation perceived as expensive, students prefer self-medication or advice from a third party. Those of a pharmacist for example, but not only. The study reveals that emeVia consulting health specialist sites such as Doctissimo, increased from 4.1% in 2013 to 6.1% in 2015.
51.5% feel financial difficulties
Another finding young women consult more for illness: 54.9% rely on their doctor, when only 50.2% of young men do. But the attendance of students decreases when it comes to gynecological examinations: 44.8% have practiced this year, against 48% in 2013.
The renunciation of care for financial reasons in the last six months 15.6% of the students concerned. A significant proportion, even if it is falling (17.4% in 2013), probably because students are using the system D. However, they are now a majority of 51.5% to declare experience financial hardship, cons 49.5% in 2013. If these are occasional difficulties for most of them (22.5%), 14% say undergoregularly.
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But students are not only worried about their wallets. The generation born in the late 1990s comes in numbers at the university, is overflowing lecture halls, which increases the feeling of selectivity. Added to. All these contribute toincreased stress. More than one in three students (39.4%) reported havingdifficulty in the handle. A rising trend since 2013 when they were only 37.5% in this case. This directly affects their perception of the future: they are no more than 85.4% to have a positive image, against 88.2% two years ago.
- Matteo Maillard
Journalist for Le Monde
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