scholarly journals Influence of individual and socio-environmental factors on self-rated health in adolescents

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Lúcia Meireles ◽  
César Coelho Xavier ◽  
Fernando Augusto Proietti ◽  
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
The Self ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Environmental Characteristics ◽  
Self Rated Health

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to determine if individual and socio-environmental characteristics can influence the self-rated health among Brazilian adolescents. METHODS: It included 1,042 adolescents from 11 to 17 years old who participated in the Beagá Health Study (Estudo Saúde em Beagá), a multistage household survey in an urban setting. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine the association between the self-rated health and the following explanatory variables: sociodemographic factors, social support, lifestyle, physical and psychological health. RESULTS: Good/very good and reasonable/poor/very poor self-rated health were reported by 88.5 and 11.5% of adolescents, respectively. The data on sociodemographic factors (SES), social support, lifestyle, psychological and physical health were associated with poor self-rated health (p ≤ 0.05). The associated variables were: age 14 - 17 years (OR =1.71; 95%CI 1.06 - 2.74), low SES (OR =1.68; 95%CI 1.05 - 2.69), few (OR = 2.53; 95%CI 1.44 - 4.46) and many quarrels in family (OR = 9.13; 95%CI 4.53 - 18.39), report of unkind and unhelpful peers (OR = 2.21; 95%CI 1.11 - 4.43), consumption of fruits < 5 times a week (OR = 1.78; 95CI% 1.07 - 2.95), physical inactivity (OR = 2.31; 95%CI 1.15 - 4.69), overweight (OR = 2.42; 95%CI 1.54 - 3.79) and low level of life satisfaction (OR = 2.31; 95%CI 1.34 - 3.98). CONCLUSIONS: Poor self-rated health among adolescents was associated with individual and socio-environmental characteristics related to family, school and neighborhood issues. Quantifying the self-rated health according to the theoretical framework of the child's well-being should help in arguing that self-rated health might be a strong indicator of social inequities for the studied population.

scholarly journals Self-rated health in urban adults, perceptions of the physical and social environment, and reported comorbidities: The BH Health Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 120-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Lúcia Meireles ◽  
César Coelho Xavier ◽  
Amanda Cristina de Souza Andrade ◽  
Amélia Augusta de Lima Friche ◽  
Fernando Augusto Proietti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Robust Variance ◽  
Minas Gerais State ◽  
Urban Adults ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

Abstract This study assesses the prevalence of poor self-rated health and investigates its association with individual and environmental characteristics in adults with and without reported morbidity. A household survey assessed 4,048 adults in two districts of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. We used Poisson regression with robust variance stratified by the presence of reported morbidity. Prevalence of poor self-rated health was 29.9% (42.6% in those with morbidity and 13.1% in the group without morbidity). All assessed domains were associated with self-rated health in subjects with reported morbidity. In the group without reported morbidity, the following were associated with self-rated health: social environment, socio-demographic factors, lifestyle, and psychological health. Perceived problems in the environment were associated with poor self-rated health in both groups, even after hierarchical adjustment. The results suggest the importance of investigating self-rated health stratified by reported morbidity and reinforce the need to include variables that characterize the physical and social environment.

scholarly journals Nutritional status of urban adolescents: individual, household and neighborhood factors based on data from The BH Health Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 232-245
Author(s):  
Stephanie Bispo ◽  
Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia ◽  
Fernando Augusto Proietti ◽  
César Coelho Xavier ◽  
Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa
Keyword(s):  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Multinomial Regression ◽  
Neighborhood Factors ◽  
Head Of Household ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
Belo Horizonte

Abstract The increasing prevalence of overweight in young people suggests that adolescent nutritional status is influenced by environmental factors. Using hierarchical modelling, this study aimed to analyse the association between individual, household and neighborhood factors and adolescent nutritional status and well-being. The study used data from a population-based household survey conducted in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2008 and 2009. Data was obtained from an adult and adolescent in each household using a confidential questionnaire and anthropometric measurements. Adolescent nutritional status was evaluated using multinomial regression analysis considering distal and proximal influences. The prevalence of overweight and thinness among the sample of 1,030 adolescents was 21.9% and 4.6%, respectively. Although variables from all blocks remained in the final model, head of household education level, family habits and family nutritional status were shown to strongly influence adolescent nutritional status. New approaches to public health are needed which focus on raising awareness and promoting health education targeting teenagers and their social context.

scholarly journals Subjective well-being: Mental health study among student in the Islamic boarding school

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Lharasati Dewi ◽  
Fatwa Tentama ◽  
Ahmad Muhammad Diponegoro
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Family Social Support ◽  
Self Acceptance

The purpose of this study was to analyze the model of the influence of family social support, gratitude, and self-acceptance on subjective well-being in student in Islamic boarding schools. The population in this study was all student of class VII in boarding school X and boarding school Y in Yogyakarta, with a total of 430 students. The sample in this study was 150 students. The sampling technique used for this study was cluster random sampling. The data were collected by using several instruments in the form of scales. The scales consisted of family social support scale, gratitude scale, self-acceptance scale, and subjective well-being scale. Data analysis was performed by testing the outer model and the inner model. The data were analyzed using structural equation model (SEM) through the Smart Partial Least Square 3.2.8 program. The results of this study suggested that the formation of a model of the influence of family social support, gratitude, and self-acceptance on subjective well-being fits with empirical data obtained. In other words, there was a significant positive correlation between all variables being studied and subjective well-being. The theoretical model formed in this study was considered fit, so it can be used as a valid model reference in investigating adolescents' subjective well-being.

scholarly journals RELIGIOUS ATTENDANCE, SOCIAL SUPPORT, AND SELF-RATED HEALTH IN FORMER NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ATHLETES

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S619-S619
Author(s):  
Robert W Turner II ◽  
Robert Turner ◽  
Amanda Sonnega ◽  
Tim Cupery ◽  
Evelyn Bush ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Attendance ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Linear Regression Models ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Frequent Attendance ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Pain Symptoms

Abstract Concern exists about the health and well-being of football players, yet little research exists on the psychosocial risk and protective factors of NFL athletes’ well-being. This study assesses the role of religious attendance, social support, and self-rated health in former NFL athletes. Data comes from a stratified, random sample of 1,063 former NFL players. A set of nested linear regression models evaluated the relationship between self-rated health status and two indices of social support (family and friends) and attendance at religious services. Frequent attendance at religious services (β=0.19, p&lt;.01), support from family (β=0.06, p&lt;.05), and support from friends (β=0.06, p&lt;.01) are positively and significantly related to better self-rated health. The ability to get out of the house did not affect these associations. However, the pain symptoms index fully accounted for any positive effect of family support and religious attendance in self-rated health.

From where does my support come? Unpacking the contribution of support for police

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
April D. Schantz ◽  
Stefany Coxe ◽  
Valentina Bruk-Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Support Network ◽  
Component Structure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe purpose of this research is to explore the structure and impact of police officers' social support network on health and well-being. Social integration promotes opportunities for regular positive experiences and a set of stable, socially rewarded roles within one's work and life domains. Identifying the structure and impact areas of police officers' social support network provide guidance for initiatives in improving psychological health for the department and individual officers.Design/methodology/approachSurvey of 162 police officers' sources of support provided a holistic representation of their social network across seven sources. Principle component analyses were conducted to explore the structure of one's social network. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine overall impact of one's social support network and relative contributions of support sources in terms of increased well-being and reduced strain.FindingsA three-component structure of social support was partially supported. Overall models of the impact of one's social support network related to increased well-being and reduced strain was supported. Relative contributions of support sources show different patterns based on outcome of interest.Practical implicationsProvides guidance for addressing the psychological well-being needs for officers holistically. In other words, treating officers as whole beings, whose system of support and psychological health is integrated, not piecemeal.Originality/valueExamination of principle effects of support provides a parsimonious approach to considering the holistic value of one's support system, apart from specific stressors or conditions.

scholarly journals Social support, self-perceived health and mental status of general population of Republic of Srpska

2015 ◽  
Vol 143 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 180-185
Author(s):  
Jelena Niskanovic ◽  
Sladjana Siljak
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Mental Status ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Perceived Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
National Health Survey ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Introduction. Social support is defined as perception of how other people take care of us, how they understand our needs and give us support. Social support has positive influence on health, adoption of healthy lifestyles and recovery from illness. Objective. The aim of this paper is to detect the level of social support across different socio-demographic groups and to analyze relationship between social support, self-perceived health and mental well-being. Methods. Data from the 2010 Household Survey (National Health Survey) for the Republic of Srpska were used. A specially designed questionnaire was used, developed on the basis of internationally recognized and accepted instruments. Representative sample of 4,178 persons aged 18 and older were interviewed. Results. The obtained results showed that the level of social support was the lowest among the oldest population, persons with the lowest level of education unemployed and unmarried. There was present relationship between social support, self-perceived health and mental health (distress/stress and vitality). It was detected that males mostly lived alone relying on help from neighbors, while females mostly lived with other household members and relied more on persons close to them. Conclusion. Social support appears to be related to mental status and self-perceived health. The results are intertwined with different age groups and they can provide baseline for further analysis of causal relationship between social support and mental and physical health among different age categories. Detecting a link among social support, mental and physical health could provide insight into the mechanisms of social support influencing health status and behaviour.

The Self-Access Form

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Quirin ◽  
Julius Kuhl
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Adaptive Functioning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Personality Functioning ◽  
Self Development

Abstract. Different lines of research suggest that individuals differ in accessing self-referential information, that is, to know who they are, what they think, want, need, or feel, and that this construct is positively associated with emotion regulation, adaptive functioning, well-being, and meaning in life. We developed a brief scale of five items, the Self-Access Form (SAF) and conducted four studies to approve its validity with respect to markers of adaptive personality functioning and health. Study 1 shows a clear, unidimensional factor structure for the SAF. Self-access correlates positively with adaptive self- and emotion regulation, as well as with psychological and physical health, but does not correlate with private self-consciousness (Study 2). Additionally, self-access is positively related to self-complexity and self-integration as two markers of adaptive self-development (Study 3). It is also inversely related to self-infiltration, that is, the misconception of other individuals’ expectations as own goals (Study 4). We conclude that self-access can validly be measured by a brief scale and positively relates to adaptive functioning and health.

scholarly journals We Got Your Back! Help Care Seeking and Caregiving in Mexican Indigenous Men With Ankylosing Spondylitis

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 155798831987201
Author(s):  
Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin ◽  
Juan Guillermo Figueroa-Perea ◽  
César Pacheco-Tena ◽  
Ingris Peláez-Ballestas
Keyword(s):  
Ankylosing Spondylitis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Care Seeking ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Access To Food ◽  
The City

This article presents a study on the care provided by 11 men from different ethnic, health, and socioeconomic backgrounds to two indigenous Rarámuri males with ankylosing spondylitis. This chronic muscular and bone disease is known to evolve progressively, causing disability and immense suffering to the affected individual. Through anthropological research involving ethnographic description and interviews conducted in an urban setting of the City of Chihuahua in the state of Chihuahua, caring practices performed by men that contest prior assumptions about how men relate to each other in relation to their health and masculinity were encountered. To interpret findings, a “caring of the self” framework, along with elements of the discussion of personhood and masculinities, was used; this led to an analysis made through the elaboration of meaningful coding of patterns of caring practices. The patterns identified in the ethnographic data were organized into four groups, all of which represented caring practices performed by these men. The first three groups involve access to food, money, and infrastructure goods, which have a material nature that holds a positive relation to the well-being of the two Rarámuri males in regard to the implications of their disease. The last group is unique in that it pertains to circumstantial factors that required improvisations in the forms of favors exchanged by these males that also positively related to their well-being

scholarly journals Psychological well-being of identity-release egg donation parents with infants

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Imrie ◽  
V Jadva ◽  
S Golombok
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Egg Donation ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Psychological Well Being

Abstract STUDY QUESTION What are the psychological health, relationship quality and perceived social support outcomes of heterosexual couples who have conceived an infant through identity-release egg donation? SUMMARY ANSWER Parents’ scores on all measures were within the normal range. Egg donation mothers had poorer perceived social support, and egg donation fathers had less optimal psychological health than a comparison group of IVF parents, although these differences were associated with the older age of egg donation parents, rather than being an effect of family type. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY There is limited understanding of the psychological health and couple relationship quality of egg donation parents, and no empirical data on parents’ social support, during the first year of parenthood. No studies have included families who have used an identity-release egg donor. The study offers the first examination of the psychological well-being of identity-release egg donation parents. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION This study included 57 families created through identity-release egg donation, and a comparison group of 56 families who had used IVF with their own gametes, recruited through UK fertility clinics. Families were visited at home between October 2013 and June 2015. The sample forms part of a larger study examining family functioning in families created following fertility treatment. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHOD All families were heterosexual two-parent families with an infant aged 6–18 months. Mothers and fathers were administered standardised questionnaires assessing psychological health (Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, Trait Anxiety Inventory and Parenting Stress Index-short form), couple relationship quality (Golombok Rust Inventory of Marital State) and perceived social support (Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support). MAIN RESULTS AND THE ROLE OF CHANCE Scores from the egg donation and IVF parents were within the normal range on all measures. Significant differences were found between the groups indicating less optimal social support in egg donation mothers compared to IVF mothers, and poorer psychological health in egg donation fathers compared to IVF fathers. These differences appeared to be related to the older age of egg donation parents or to twin parenthood, rather than to egg donation per se. No differences were found between the groups in the parents’ relationship quality. LIMITATIONS, REASONS FOR CAUTION It is possible that families who were managing the transition to parenthood less well may have been less likely to participate in research. Fewer IVF than egg donation fathers participated in the study, so the statistical power was lower for comparisons between fathers. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE FINDINGS The findings are of relevance to UK clinics offering identity-release egg donation. That scores of egg donation parents on measures of psychological well-being were more similar than different to those of IVF parents should prove reassuring to individuals considering this treatment type. As less optimal outcomes were found for egg donation parents on several measures, and these were associated with parental age rather than conception type, it is recommended that clinics discuss with older patients how they may establish a social support network and signpost patients to appropriate post-natal support. STUDY FUNDING, COMPETING INTERESTS This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award [097857/Z/11/Z] and a CHESS-ESRC studentship. The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER N/A

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